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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The first known use of redbrick was in 1769
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