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Definition of: tramontane
(trə·mon′tān, tram′ən·tān) adjective
1. Situated beyond the mountains; ultramontane; hence, barbarous; foreign.
2. Coming from the other side of the mountains.
—noun A foreigner or barbarian: originally, a resident beyond the mountains. [<Ital. tramontana north wind, polestar <L transmontanus beyond the mountains <trans- over + mons, montis a mountain]
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