tramontana

[trah-muhn-tah-nuh, -tan-uh; It. trah-mawn-tah-nah]

noun, plural -nas, Italian -ne

[-ne] .

a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.

any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.

Origin:
1605–15; < Italian, noun use of feminine of tramontano tramontane

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WordNet

tramontana
noun
a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: tramontane]

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