Cispontine

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    On this side of the bridge (or bridges). not-comparable

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

Etymology

From cis- + Latin pōns.

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