tramontane
tramontane is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 30 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous. Note: The Italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and apply it to the countries north of the Alps, as France and Germany, and especially to their ecclesiastics, jurists, painters, etc.; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane, or ultramontane, doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. See Ultramontane.
- 2.One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abroad
- alien
- alienage
- alienism
- beyond
- body
- creole
- element
- emigrant
- exceptional
- exteriority
- extraneous
- extrinsicality
- foreign
- foreigner
- greaser
- immigrant
- inadmissible
- interloper
- intruder
- newcomer
- outsider
- over
- sea
- slant
- stranger
- substance
- tenderfoot
- ulterior
- ultramontane
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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