tramontana

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

tramontana
    n 1: a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into
         Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: {tramontane},
         {tramontana}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tramontana \Tra`mon*ta"na\, n. [It. See {Tramontane}.] (Meteor.)
   A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

[email protected]