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Definition of red-brick adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

red-brick

adjective
 
/ˈred brɪk/
 
/ˈred brɪk/
[usually before noun]
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  1. (of buildings, walls, etc.) built with bricks (= hard blocks of baked earth that are used for building) of a red-brown colour
    • red-brick cottages
  2. (becoming old-fashioned) (of universities in the UK) built in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, in contrast to older universities, such as Oxford and Cambridge compare OxbridgeTopics Educationc2
hat-trick
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