red-brick

Variant of redbrick

redbrick definition

red·brick or red-brick red′·-brick′ (-brik′)

adjective

designating or of a British university or college other than Oxford or Cambridge; esp., any of the newer ones in the provinces: often connoting social inferiority

Etymology: from the typical building material (in contrast to the stone of Oxford and Cambridge)

noun

a redbrick university or college

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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