tramontane , also: transmontane

He worked for 40 years in the magazine La Tramontane.

The continuous howling noise of the tramontane is said to have a disturbing effect upon the psyche.

'So it is for my homely tramontane.

Perhaps because of the strong mistral and tramontane winds from the north, the nave has no windows on the north side.

This is the area of the famous cold, blustery winds called the Mistral and the Tramontane.

We have a laranzu come with us from Tramontane, but he has had no experience with sentry-birds, and these are known to you, damisela.

"To Tramontane?

In Europe, similar winds are known as the Bora, Tramontane, and Mistral.

Tramontana, Tramuntana, or Tramontane may refer to:

In the north-west blows the Cers, called Tramontane in Provence, which is a ground wind.

The causes and characteristics of the mistral are very similar to those of the Tramontane, another wind of the French Mediterranean region.

Article on Tramontane in the French-language Wikipedia (in French)

The Tramontane and Marin winds makes windsurfing and surfing more challenging than in some resorts and all manner of water sports are available here.

Lâg is most popular for its guitars (e.g. the Lâg Roxane and the Tramontane acoustic series).

And the blessed realisation that the dawn was bringing its usual slackening of the tramontane - and that the sail down to leeward was the lively.

He also contributed to numerous regional magazines such as Madeloc, Sources Vives, Agni, Conflent, Tramontane and so forth.

Commanding charcoals, by local artist Meifrén, of the 19th century Cadaqués beleaguered by a winter tramontane, can be seen at the Cadaqués museum.

Its main winds are the Tramontane, a dry and cold wind that blows clouds away, and the Marin, a humid wind that, contrarily, brings clouds in.

The Tramontane, a strong, cold and dry north wind, similar to the Mistral, which blows from the Massif Central mountains toward the Mediterannean to the west of the Rhone.

The word moved from Latin into French with the meanings "North Star" and also "the guide" In 1636 the French expression "perdre la tramontane" meant "to be disoriented."

The surrounding hills are not high enough to keep out the Tramontane (Tramontana in Catalan), which has shaped the rocks and bent the trees over until the branches almost touch the ground.

It was used in this sense by Molière in his play "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", where one character says "Je perds la tramontane" (I have lost my way.)

Jeff can also been seen on YouTube playing an electro acoustic LAG Tramontane T100 ASCEBLK.

The tramontane in France is a strong, dry cold wind from the north (on the Mediterranean) or from the northwest (in lower Languedoc, Roussillon, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands).

Off Oran, she engaged the Vichy French torpilleurs Tramontane and Tornade on 8 November 1942, sinking the latter and damaging the former so badly that she had to be beached.