Thesaurus: tramontane

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1. a. Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.
2. n. One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.
3. adj. on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)
4. adj. being or coming from another country
5. n. a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean
6. Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous. Note: The Italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and apply it to the countries north of the Alps, as France and Germany, and especially to their ecclesiastics, jurists, painters, etc.; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane, or ultramontane, doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. See Ultramontane. One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.
7. Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other sideof the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.
8. n. a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean a. on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker) s. being or coming from another country