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redbrick

adjective red·brick \-ˌbrik\

: made of red bricks

Full Definition of REDBRICK

1
:  built of red brick
2
often capitalized [from the common use of red brick in constructing the buildings of recently founded universities] :  of, relating to, or being the British universities founded in the 19th or early 20th century — compare oxbridge, plateglass
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First Known Use of REDBRICK

1835

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