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redbrick

or red-brick

[ red-brik ]

adjective

, British Informal.
  1. of, relating to, or associated with a redbrick university.


redbrick

/ ˈrɛdˌbrɪk /

noun

  1. modifier denoting, relating to, or characteristic of a provincial British university of relatively recent foundation, esp as distinguished from Oxford and Cambridge
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of redbrick1

First recorded in 1705–15; red 1 + brick
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Example Sentences

They turned a corner and saw a small, flat redbrick building with guards and others milling around its door.

Outside, Butch and Leon leaned on a corner of the redbrick building and smoked a cigarette.

The courthouse was a low, one-story redbrick building, sitting well back from the street.

It stands about mid-way between the Chelsea pier and the new redbrick mansions erected on the Chelsea embankment.

One was a square, red-brick mansion in the centre of the village, surrounded by a high, redbrick wall enclosing a garden.

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