Definition of "redbrick" [redbrick]

• Of, relating to, or being the British universities other than Oxford and Cambridge. (adjective)

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• "U.S. Forces Korea and its attendant bureaucracies are located in redbrick buildings that the Americans inherited in 1945 from the Japanese occupiers."
• "Students who 'avoid challenge' of traditional subjects miss out on places at Oxbridge or 'redbrick' institutions"
• "Straight ahead of me lay the main quadrangle of Chase College, redbrick buildings with steep slate roofs and multipaned windows."