tramontana

2 definitions found

tramontana - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

tramontana - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tramontana
      n 1: a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into
           Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: tramontane,
           tramontana]