[COUNTER- 6.] The opposite pole.
1839. De Quincey, Rom. Meals, Wks. 1863, III. 267. This ‘prandium’ … was taken standing … the very counter-pole to the luxurious posture of dinner. Ibid. (1840), Style, I. (1860), 197. It offers the direct counterpole to the French style.
