adj. & n.
--adj.
1. situated or living on the other side of mountains, esp. the Alps as seen from Italy.
2 (from the Italian point of view) foreign; barbarous.
--n.
1. a tramontane person.
2 TRAMONTANA.
Etymology: ME f. It. tramontano f. L transmontanus beyond the mountains (as TRANS-, mons montis mountain)