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Tramontana   Listen
noun
Tramontana  n.  (Meteor.) A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... Contini delli vltimi Tartari. Alcune Terre Incognite. Contini Settentrionali della Rosia.] Riuoltasi l'Oceano da leuante verso la regione delle Cine, et va alla volta di Tramontana, et passata finalmente la detta regione, se ne giunge a Gogi et Magogi, cio e alli confini de gli Vltimi Tartari, et di quiui ad Alcune Terre che sono Incognite: Et correndo sempre per Ponente, passa sopra li confini ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation v. 4 • Richard Hakluyt

... broken-kneed horses sway to and fro beneath their unwieldy load, and the drivers, clad in their heavy sheepskin jackets, crouch sleepily beneath the clumsy, hide-bound framework, placed so as to shelter them from the chill Tramontana blasts. A solitary cart is rare, for the neighbourhood of Rome is not the safest of places, and those small piles of stone, with the wooden cross surmounting them, bear witness to the fact that a murder took place not long ...
— Rome in 1860 • Edward Dicey

... eccentric went bounding after it with kangaroo leaps and bursts of breathless speech, of which it was not always easy to pick up the thread: "Fair play, fair play... sport of kings... chase their crowns... quite humane... tramontana... cardinals chase red hats... old English hunting... started a hat in Bramber Combe... hat at bay... mangled ...
— Manalive • G. K. Chesterton

... Italian, concerninge him, fo. 52: Dapoi ehe vostra Maesta e in questa citta di Toledo, arriuo qui nel mese di Nouembre il piloto Stephano Gomez, ilquale nel' anno passato del 1524. per comandamento di vostra Maesta, nauigo alla parte di Tramontana, e trouo gran parte di terra continouata a quella che si chiama dellos Bachallaos, doscorrendo a Occidente, e giace in 40. e 41. grado, e cosi poco piu e meno; del qual luogo meno alcuni Indiani, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt



Words linked to "Tramontana" :   norther, northerly, boreas, tramontane



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