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Definition of "transpontine" [transpontine]

  • Situated on the other side of a bridge. (adjective)
  • Similar to or characteristic of melodramas once performed in London theaters located south of the Thames River. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "transpontine" in a sentence
  • "A third transpontine house, the Royal Coburg (still with us as the Old Vic) was addedlater."
  • "So much of fault we find; but on the other side the impartial critic rejoices to remark the presence of a great unity of gusto; of those direct clap-trap appeals, which a man is dead and buriable when he fails to answer; of the footlight glamour, the ready-made, bare-faced, transpontine picturesque, a thing not one with cold reality, but how much dearer to the mind!"
  • "He used to talk about "transpontine utterances" and "lapidiary prose" and make me go to the dictionary to look the words up if I said I didn't understand them."
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