Transpontine

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a sea. not-comparable

    "he may beget upon her Children worthy of ſome Transpontine Monarchy"

  3. 3
    Relating to the sensational melodramas presented on the south side of the Thames in the 19th century or earlier. historical, 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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overseas

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