| 单词 | tramontane |
| 释义 | tramontane /treuh mon"tayn, tram"euhn tayn'/, adj. Also, transmontane. 1. being or situated beyond the mountains. 2. beyond the Alps as viewed from Italy; transalpine. 3. of, pertaining to, or coming from the other side of the mountains. 4. foreign; barbarous. n. 5. a person who lives beyond the mountains: formerly applied by the Italians to the peoples beyond the Alps, and by the latter to the Italians. 6. a foreigner; outlander; barbarian. 7. a violent, polar wind from the northwest that blows in southern France. [1300-50 for an earlier sense; 1585-95 for def. 5; ME tramountayne pole star < It tramontano < L transmontanus beyond the mountains. See TRANS-, MOUNT2, -AN] |
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