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English
Adjective
transpontine (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.
1901, Henry James, Flickerbridge:Other young women in Paris—fellow-members there of the little tight transpontine world of art-study—professed to know that the pair had been "several times" over so closely contracted.
- (theater, historical) Of or relating to the sensational melodramas presented on the south side of the Thames in the 19th century or earlier.
- Antonym: cispontine
Such transpontine spectacles are not usually seen in our local theatre.
1882, The Theatre: A Monthly Review and Magazine, page 35:Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine : it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges.