(adj): on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)
(adj): being or coming from another country
(adj): vs. native), strange -- (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
(n): a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean
(n): a wind that blows from the north
Lovely Estella, said I, on accosting her, thou absolute lodestone of the tramontanes...
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 10
"As soon as she was well clear of the headland she took the true breeze, undeflected, a moderate tramontane, and Jack, standing by the helmsman with the mater, said 'Luff and touch her.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 205
Dwelling beyond or coming from the far side of the mountains (also transmontane). Compare to cismontane.