Found 2 items, similar to Tramontane.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: tramontane 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: transmontane] [ant: cismontane] 2: being or coming from another country; “tramontane influences” n : a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: tramontana]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Tramontane 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] Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, n. One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger. [1913 Webster]