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red brick university en · NOUN

Etymology

From the memoir Redbrick University by Edgar Allison Peers, whose titular university is based on the University of Liverpool. Liverpool, like most urban universities of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, extensively uses red clay bricks in its architecture.

Meanings

1. (UK) Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.
   • It took a while before he told me his background: a happy childhood; two degrees—a bachelor's from a red brick university and an Oxbridge PhD; a relatively high-flying job in academia that he liked rather than loved. 2006 March 31, Adrian Turpin, “Not tonight darling, I'm online”, in Financial Times, retrieved 31 Mar 2006:

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Oxbridge · plate-glass university

wikipedia: University of Liverpool · wikipedia: Edgar Allison Peers