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transpontine en · ADJ

Etymology

From trans- + pontine.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.
  2. (not-comparable) Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a sea.
    • he may beget upon her Children worthy of ſome Transpontine Monarchy 1748, François Rabelais, translated by Jacob Le Duchat, Gargantua and Pantagruel, page III.31:
    • Other young women in Paris — in the little tight transpontine world of art-study […] 1901, Henry James, Flickerbridge:
  3. (historical, not-comparable) Relating to the sensational melodramas presented on the south side of the Thames in the 19th century or earlier.
    • Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine: it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges. 1882, The Theatre: A Monthly Review and Magazine, page 35:

Antonyms

cispontine