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Lying or situated on the other side of a bridge. Also: Resembling or characteristic of a class of melodramas once popular in theaters of the part of London south of the Thames.

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  • Booth was driven by Kean's superiority to become a hero to "transpontine audiences."
  • A third transpontine house, the Royal Coburg (still with us as the Old Vic) was addedlater.
  • 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.
  • You're the most transpontine person I ever saw in my life. '
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