transpontine's Usage Examples:

The reception of Kean on this occasion by the transpontine public, the faith of which in Cobham was never shaken, was unfavourable.

theatre until 1869 and established its reputation for 'rough-and-tumble' transpontine melodrama.

received poor reviews, Picturegoer's critic calling it: A burlesque of transpontine melodrama which falls to come off and only succeeds in being tiresomely.

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The plot is supposedly a burlesque of what was 'transpontine' melodrama.