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tramontane

[truh-mon-teyn, tram-uhn-teyn]

adjective Also, transmontane.

being or situated beyond the mountains.

beyond the Alps as viewed from Italy; transalpine.

of, pertaining to, or coming from the other side of the mountains.

foreign; barbarous.

noun

a person who lives beyond the mountains: formerly applied by the Italians to the peoples beyond the Alps, and by the latter to the Italians.

a foreigner; outlander; barbarian.

a violent, polar wind from the northwest that blows in southern France.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1300–50 for an earlier sense; 1585–95 for def. 5; Middle English tramountayne pole star < Italian tramontano < Latin trānsmontānus beyond the mountains. See trans-, mount², -an

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noun, plural tra·mon·ta·nas, Italian tra·mon·ta·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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tramontane (trəˈmɒnteɪn)

—*adj*
1.	being or coming from the far side of the mountains, esp from the other side of the Alps as seen from Italy
2.	foreign or barbarous
3.	(of a wind) blowing down from the mountains

—n
4.	an inhabitant of a tramontane country
5.	Also called: tramontana a cold dry wind blowing south or southwest from the mountains in Italy and the W Mediterranean
6.	rare a foreigner or barbarian

[C16: from Italian tramontano, from Latin trānsmontānus, from trans- + montānus, from mōns mountain]

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