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tramontana

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tra⋅mon⋅ta⋅na

[trah-muhn-tah-nuh, -tan-uh; It. trah-mawn-tah-nah]
–noun, plural -nas, Italian. -ne [-ne] .
1. a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.
2. any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.

Origin:
1605–15; < It, n. use of fem. of tramontano tramontane
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