'Tramontane' definitions:
Definition of 'tramontane'
From: WordNet
adjective
On or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker); "the transmontane section of the state"; "tramontane winds" [syn: tramontane, transmontane] [ant: cismontane]
adjective
Being or coming from another country; "tramontane influences"
noun
A cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: tramontane, tramontana]
Definition of 'Tramontane'
From: GCIDE
- Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, a. [OF. tramontain, It. tramontano, L. transmontanus; trans across, beyond + mons, montis, mountain.] Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tramontane'
From: GCIDE
- Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, n. One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger. [1913 Webster]