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red-brick
Also red brick, redbrick.
1. A red building-brick. Freq. attrib.
1712J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry II. 150 The black Mould..will in time degenerate into a red-brick Earth. 1835J. Romilly Diary 11 Mar. (1967) 70 They are nasty red-brick churches, in the worst stile of 1760. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 184 The finest kind of marl and red bricks, called cutting bricks. a1847Eliza Cook Rhymes by Roadside iv, The child upon the red-brick floor. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Terms 280 Red Brick Dust, used for parting Sand. 1916E. F. Benson David Blaize v. 101 His horizon and aspirations stretched no farther than this red-brick arena. 1943‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick University 17 The material used in them [sc. universities] was..a hideously cheerful red brick suggestive of something between a super council-school and a holiday home for children. 1960J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells v. 46 But for me, Less academic, red⁓brick Chalfont Road Meant great-aunt Wilkins, tea and buttered toast. 1977Western Mail (Cardiff) 5 Mar. 7/3 For the Opposition leader, it was a nostalgic return to the red brick establishment of Kesteven and Grantham girls' school which she left 34 years ago.
2. (Also with capital initial.) Used attrib. or quasi-adj. to denote a British university founded in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century in a large industrial city, with buildings of red-brick, as distinct from the older universities (esp. Oxford, Cambridge, the ancient universities of Scotland, and some of the London colleges) built predominantly in stone, and also as distinct from the new universities founded after the 1939–45 war; of or pertaining to such a university; also ellipt., a red-brick university; collect., such universities in general. Also transf.
1943‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick University 18 The range of interests represented in a Redbrick staff common-room. Ibid. 19 It may be natural enough for him to go on to Red⁓brick, but to..enter Oxbridge is something infinitely more exciting. 1944‘H. Ashton’ Yeoman's Hospital ix. 197 Marriner took his professorship at that frightful red-brick university. 1950Times Educ. Suppl. 10 Mar. 183 (heading) Redbrick criticized. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 30/4 Talk of..‘the red-brick intellectuals’, though no Movement founder-member had done more than teach at one of the provincial universities. 1958Observer 16 Feb. 12/3 One of the new ‘redbrick actors’, neither actorish in aspect nor conventionally po-voiced. 1958New Statesman 22 Feb. 233/1 Under education, the correct entry is: ‘Educated Thomas Cooks, American Express, Wayfarers, etc., etc.’ Europe has been my Redbrick. 1960, etc. [see Oxbridge]. 1966G. Sinstadt Whisper in Lonely Place iii. 33 He's a research engineer, degree from one of the red-bricks, middle twenties. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places i. 9 Rummidge..had lately suffered the mortifying fate of most English universities of its type (civic redbrick). 1976M. Hinxman End of Good Woman i. 13 They kept introducing her to eligible mates. Revolutionaries at the London School of Economics, posh chums from Oxford..budding scientists and engineers at the ‘red-brick’ universities. 1977Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXV. 670/1 Some of the best safety managers I know left school at 14 or 15 years of age. Conversely, we have seen people who come from red bricks and grey stones but are quite unable to do the job at all. |