| 单词 | redbrick university |
| 释义 | > as lemmasredbrick university redbrick university n. British (originally somewhat depreciative) (originally) a British university founded in the late 19th or early 20th cent. in a major provincial city, typically having buildings of red brick (as opposed to stone); (later also) any recently founded or created university; frequently, esp. in early use, in contrast with Oxbridge.The term was coined by E. Allison Peers, Professor of Spanish at the University of Liverpool, writing under the pseudonym ‘Bruce Truscot’; in the work cited in quot. 1943, he compares two fictional universities called Redbrick and Oxbridge. ΚΠ 1943 ‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick Univ. i. 40 One has only to contrast the present Redbrick University, situated in (or very near to) the slums, with a Redbrick University City of the future, lying well outside the municipal boundaries. 1944 ‘H. Ashton’ Yeoman's Hosp. ix. 197 Marriner took his professorship at that frightful red-brick university. 1976 M. Hinxman End of Good Woman i. 13 Revolutionaries at the London School of Economics, posh chums from Oxford..budding scientists and engineers at the ‘red-brick’ universities. 1993 G. Brown in M. Bradbury & A. Motion New Writing 2 336 He is a Writing Fellow at one of the lesser-known redbrick universities. 2011 City A.M. (Nexis) 5 May (News) 25 One of the CVs..did not offer an undergraduate degree from Oxbridge or a redbrick university, so was automatically ruled out. < as lemmas |
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