transpontine
Americanadjective
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across or beyond a bridge.
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on the southern side of the Thames in London.
adjective
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on or from the far side of a bridge
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archaic on or from the south side of the Thames in London
Etymology
Origin of transpontine
1835–45; trans- + Latin pont- (stem of pōns ) bridge + -ine 1
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Mr. James Madgin was first low comedian at one of the transpontine theatres.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
He was wrestling with hideous melodrama, often described to him by patrons of Thespian art at transpontine theatres.
From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross
The tragedy of the eighteenth century is almost beneath contempt, being for the most part pale French echo or else transpontine melodrama, with a few plaster-cast attempts to reproduce an entirely misunderstood Shakespeare.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
The transpontine theatre, even the penny gaff of the New Cut, was not quite unfamiliar with the face of the poet-painter.
From Old Familiar Faces by Theodore Watts-Dunton
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