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transpontine
adj 3
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3ADJ.
little, tight, worthy
TRANSPONTINE + NOUN
art-study, monarchy, world
ADV.
once
Definitions
adj
1
Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.
2
Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a sea.
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 […]
3
Relating to the sensational melodramas presented on the south side of the Thames in the 19th century or earlier.
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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he may beget upon her Children worthy of ſome Transpontine Monarchy
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Other young women in Paris — in the little tight transpontine world of art-study […]
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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.
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