Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.