redbrick
redbrick Lexical Profile
redbrick Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Built or constructed out of red brick.
"They bought a charming redbrick townhouse near the historic district."
British Relating to or denoting any of the British civic universities founded in major industrial cities in the late 19th or early 20th century, as contrasted with the ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
"She earned her engineering degree from a prestigious redbrick university in northern England."
• noun
Red brick used as a building material, or a building constructed from it.
"The neighborhood is characterized by rows of Victorian redbricks."
British A British civic university founded in the late 19th or early 20th century in an industrial city, originally constructed of red brick and emphasizing practical, scientific, and technical subjects.
"Many of the country's leading scientists graduated from the great northern redbricks."
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined as a compound of 'red' and 'brick', the university sense was popularized in 1943 by Edgar Allison Peers (writing under the pseudonym 'Bruce Truscot') in his book 'Redbrick University', inspired by the Victorian red-pressed brick Victoria Building at the University of Liverpool.