[syn: tramontane, transmontane]
2. being or coming from another country;
- Example: "tramontane influences"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, n.
One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a
stranger.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tramontane
adj 1: 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]
2: being or coming from another country; "tramontane influences"
n 1: a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into
Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: tramontane,
tramontana]