cisatlantic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cisatlantic
Example Sentences
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Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Our second, never to suffer Europe to meddle in cisatlantic affairs.”
From Thomas Jefferson by Merwin, Henry Childs
The opinions of some carried their own condemnation in their obvious extravagance; and hyperbolical admiration fairly ran itself out of breath in speaking of the wonders of this cisatlantic young Roscius.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
The language of the excellent Mary Ellen, for instance, comes to me with a distinct cisatlantic sound.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Morley, Christopher
Men yet living can remember when in the eyes of the universal church of learning, all cisatlantic countries, our own included, were partes infidelium.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
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