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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 © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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