Meaning of transpontine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.
   not-comparable
2. Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a sea.
   not-comparable
3. Relating to the sensational melodramas presented on the south side of the Thames in the 19th century or earlier.
   historical, not-comparable

Examples

“he may beget upon her Children worthy of ſome Transpontine Monarchy”

“Other young women in Paris — in the little tight transpontine world of art-study […]”

“Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine: it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges.”

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