red-brick
adjective/ˈred brɪk/
/ˈred brɪk/
[usually before noun]- (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
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- (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
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