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transpontine
[ trans-pon-tin, -tahyn ]
adjective
- across or beyond a bridge.
- on the southern side of the Thames in London.
transpontine
/ trænzˈpɒntaɪn /
adjective
- on or from the far side of a bridge
- archaic.on or from the south side of the Thames in London
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Example Sentences
And he strode along with the air of the heavy man in a transpontine melodrama.
He talked after a fashion of the characters in an early Victorian novel or a transpontine melodrama.
Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.
Transpontine, trans-pon′tin, adj. situated across a bridge, esp.
The arable infants seem to gravitate towards the transpontine districts south of the Thames.
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