Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRA-MON'TANE
TRA-MON'TANE, a. [Fr. tramontana; tra, L. trans, beyond, and mons, mountain.]
Lying or being beyond the mountain; foreign; barbarous. The Italian painters apply this epithet to all such as live north of the Alps, as in Germany and France; and a north wind is called a ultramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane or ultramontane doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. Cyc.
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