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
Example Sentences
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You're the most transpontine person I ever saw in my life.'
From The Explorer by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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 Saintsbury, George
It kept perpetually coming up in Paris, in the transpontine world, that, as the phrase was, America had grown more interesting since they left.
From Some Short Stories [by Henry James] by James, Henry
Rather modelled on transpontine style; a little unnecessarily noisy; too humorously aggressive; hopelessly obvious.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 26th 1893 by Various
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 Watts-Dunton, Theodore
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