REDBRICK


Meaning of REDBRICK in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌbrik ]

adjective

Date: 1835

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.