transpontine

English

Adjective

transpontine (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.

   Antonym: cispontine

2. Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a sea.
   • 1748, François Rabelais, translated by Jacob Le Duchat, Gargantua and Pantagruel‎^[1], page III.31:

     he may beget upon her Children worthy of ſome Transpontine Monarchy

   • 1901, Henry James, Flickerbridge‎^[2]:

     Other young women in Paris — in the little tight transpontine world of art-study […]

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