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redbrick

(-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

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

noun

a redbrick university or college

See redbrick in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Of, relating to, or being the British universities other than Oxford and Cambridge.

Origin:

Origin: So-called because many of the buildings of such universities were built of red bricks

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