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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And he strode along with the air of the heavy man in a transpontine melodrama.
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Hemyng, Bracebridge
He talked after a fashion of the characters in an early Victorian novel or a transpontine melodrama.
From I Walked in Arden by Crawford, Jack
The arable infants seem to gravitate towards the transpontine districts south of the Thames.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice
He was wrestling with hideous melodrama, often described to him by patrons of Thespian art at transpontine theatres.
From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert
He stopped suddenly and stamped twice, as a haughty earl might do in a transpontine tragedy when resolving upon his crowning villany, and exclaimed in a voice suggestive of fiend-like triumph— "I have it."
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Hemyng, Bracebridge
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