Tramontana

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tramontana \Tra`mon*ta"na\, n. [It. See {Tramontane}.] (Meteor.)
     A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tramontana
       n : a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into
           Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: {tramontane}]