red brickn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrɛd brɪk/,

/ˌrɛd ˈbrɪk/, U.S.

/ˈrɛd ˈbrɪk/

Forms: see red adj. and n. and brick n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., brick n.¹

Etymology: < red adj. + brick n.¹On the uses in senses A. 2b and B. 3 see note at redbrick university n. at Compounds.

A. n.

1. A builder's brick of a brownish red colour; such bricks used as a building material.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > types of

white brick1468

red brick1587

clinker1659

clinkerc1660

stock-brick1683

Windsor brick1702

grey stock1726

stockc1738

red stock1748

firebrick1749

Welsh lump1798

malm1811

cutting-brick1815

pecking1819

blue brick1823

malm brick1824

Windsor1841

cutter1842

grizzle1843

shuff1843

picking1850

Woolpit brick1887

Hollander1897

Staffordshire1898

Stafford brick1908

misfire1923

klompie1926

1587 T. Churchyard Worthines of Wales sig. M3 ^v This Castle stands, on Rocke much like red Bricke.

1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. I4^v As a red Bricke by water's Albified.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xvi. 108 It [sc. this Chocolatticall confection] is further compounded with..as much of Achiotte, as will make it looke of the colour of a red bricke.

1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. i. 1 The kitchen, in which they assembled, was the only room for entertainment in the house, paved with red bricks.

1776 G. Ellis Bath 6 Plac'd on quarries of the purest stone, The red brick shines unrival'd and alone.

1801 Times 22 June 2/3 It is of red brick, the plan entirely Gothic, and every part is to be finished agreeably to the design given to Mr. Wyatt by his Majesty.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 184 The finest kind of marl and red bricks, called cutting bricks.

1882 Harper's Mag. June 4/1 Most of the houses in the older part of the town are white-washed, a few are of original red brick, and a still smaller number are of cold, steely-gray flint.

1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 8/1 Against the red bricks of the great square house, white fluted columns arose from ground to roof.

1943 ‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick Univ. 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.

1994 A. Taylor Air that Kills ii. ix. 87 Next there were terraces of tiny cottages built of red brick, several pubs and two chapels, one with boarded-up windows.

a. A building made of red brick.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [noun]

framec1425

staddlec1563

sided1602

brick house1608

dobe1838

brick1844

adobe1852

shell1852

cinderblock1868

tin chapel1884

brick veneer1885

red brick1892

gambrel1917

weatherboard1925

Terrapin1949

Portakabin1963

1892 Catholic World June 352 Their home was a very modest red brick, of the unpretentious, comfortable style of architecture with which people were well contented a quarter of a century ago.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) xiv. 139 The restaurant was next door to the old red brick in which she hall-roomed.

1959 J. Kerouac Doctor Sax 5 Wagon boys outside (same who rushed among the downtown redbricks of my Chinese mystery).

1993 C. McCully Time Signatures 15 I wish the ruin back as it was before—accustomed stains, two redbricks back-to-back, and lights in different rooms.

b. Usually in form redbrick. In early use (usually with capital initial): redbrick universities collectively (in contrast with Oxbridge). Now (as a count noun): = redbrick university n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > university > types of

state college1806

state university1811

Oxbridge1849

Camford1850

state1899

multiversity1926

Ivy League1939

red brick1943

televersity1950

televarsity1961

1943 ‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick Univ. 19 It may be natural enough for him to go on to Redbrick, but to..enter Oxbridge is something infinitely more exciting.

1950 Times Educ. Suppl. 10 Mar. 183 (heading) Redbrick criticized.

1958 New 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 Times 14 Mar. 13/4 The University ‘Rag’..is now more closely identified with what the jargon calls ‘Redbrick’ rather than ‘Oxbridge’, with the world of Kingsley Amis rather than that of the young Compton Mackenzie.

1966 G. Sinstadt Whisper in Lonely Place iii. 33 He's a research engineer, degree from one of the red-bricks, middle twenties.

1975 D. Lodge Changing Places i. 9 Rummidge..had lately suffered the mortifying fate of most English universities of its type (civic redbrick).

1992 Times 12 Sept. (Sat. Review) 16/2 I became a first-generation university student, going not to hated Oxbridge but the local redbrick, a place of which even the KGB, even less the foreign office, had not heard.

B. adj. Usually hyphenated or as one word.

1. Of the brownish red colour typical of red bricks; designating this colour; = brick-red adj.

ΚΠ

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry xvii. 398 I have an Oak,..growing upon a red brick Earth, that is at least forty foot deep.

1712 J. Mortimer Art of Husbandry: Pt. II 150 The black Mould..will in time degenerate into a red-brick Earth.

1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening II. 205 The flowers..are small, of a red brick colour, appear in July, and the seeds ripen in the autumn.

1840 Med. Times 10 Oct. 16/2 Dissolved in azotic acid it gave no red-brick colour by the addition of ammoniacal nitrate of silver.

1871 R. F. Burton & C. F. T. Drake Unexplored Syria II. App. i. 291 The red-brick earth would give a brown tinge.

1912 Geogr. Jrnl. 40 373 On the Hawash the soil is blackish, here it is of a red-brick colour.

1998 R. Lehan City in Lit. iv. 58 Vautrin is one of Balzac's most memorable characters: he has red-brick hair concealed by a wig, a powerful physique, a resonant voice, piercing eyes, [etc.].

2. Made of red bricks; built in red brick.

ΚΠ

1769 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! II. i. xii. 125 The fine stone castle, built by King William (which, to the best of my remembrance, is a spacious red brick building).

1826 Gardener's Mag. Apr. 120 These old-fashioned red-brick residences are to be occasionally met with in their original state.

1845 E. Cook Poems 2nd Ser. 116 The child upon the red-brick floor.

1885 Cent. Mag. July 339/1 The rectory with its bright garden, the staring new red-brick school, a substantial farmhouse or two with well-filled rick-yard and long-roof out-buildings.

1920 E. Ferber Half Portions viii. 265 You saw him conversing hungrily with the gritty and taciturn Swede who was janitor for the block of red-brick flats.

1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 63 Lutyens also did the houses along the S end of Erskine Hill which leads up to the Square, of a fine restrained late C17 formality, in grey brick with red-brick dressings.

2007 Sunday Times Trav. May 69/1 She steers us round beds of pink azaleas that trace red-brick mansions and wrought-iron porches.

3. British. Usually in form redbrick. Of or characteristic of a redbrick university; that is a graduate of a redbrick university.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > university > types of university

Oxbridge1850

non-collegiate1853

provincial1875

Ivy League1939

red brick1943

Oxbridgean1959

plate glass1968

1943 ‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick Univ. 18 The range of interests represented in a Redbrick staff common-room.

1958 Times 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.

1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories i. 41 Your man Frankie McLaughlin was redbrick,..he had a head as big as Birkenhead about himself.

2001 S. Walton Out of It (2002) p. xiv The parvenu guest, with his alternative haircut and redbrick degree.

Compounds

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.

Derivatives

ˌred-ˈbricked adj. made of red bricks.

ΚΠ

1818 F. Hall Trav. Canada & U.S. xxiv. 245 Here let me record the fame of the little red-bricked tavern, on the right hand side, near the entrance of the village.

1897 H. James Let. 1 Dec. (1984) IV. i. 63 Its nice old red-bricked front.

1996 Mail on Sunday 28 Apr. (Night & Day Suppl.) 8/2 Neat little red-bricked terraced flats in Robert Street.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	red brick
释义	red brickn.adj. Brit. /ˈrɛd brɪk/, /ˌrɛd ˈbrɪk/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˈbrɪk/ Forms: see red adj. and n. and brick n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., brick n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + brick n.¹On the uses in senses A. 2b and B. 3 see note at redbrick university n. at Compounds. A. n. 1. A builder's brick of a brownish red colour; such bricks used as a building material. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > types of white brick1468 red brick1587 clinker1659 clinkerc1660 stock-brick1683 Windsor brick1702 grey stock1726 stockc1738 red stock1748 firebrick1749 Welsh lump1798 malm1811 cutting-brick1815 pecking1819 blue brick1823 malm brick1824 Windsor1841 cutter1842 grizzle1843 shuff1843 picking1850 Woolpit brick1887 Hollander1897 Staffordshire1898 Stafford brick1908 misfire1923 klompie1926 1587 T. Churchyard Worthines of Wales sig. M3 ^v This Castle stands, on Rocke much like red Bricke. 1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. I4^v As a red Bricke by water's Albified. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xvi. 108 It [sc. this Chocolatticall confection] is further compounded with..as much of Achiotte, as will make it looke of the colour of a red bricke. 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. i. 1 The kitchen, in which they assembled, was the only room for entertainment in the house, paved with red bricks. 1776 G. Ellis Bath 6 Plac'd on quarries of the purest stone, The red brick shines unrival'd and alone. 1801 Times 22 June 2/3 It is of red brick, the plan entirely Gothic, and every part is to be finished agreeably to the design given to Mr. Wyatt by his Majesty. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 184 The finest kind of marl and red bricks, called cutting bricks. 1882 Harper's Mag. June 4/1 Most of the houses in the older part of the town are white-washed, a few are of original red brick, and a still smaller number are of cold, steely-gray flint. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 8/1 Against the red bricks of the great square house, white fluted columns arose from ground to roof. 1943 ‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick Univ. 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. 1994 A. Taylor Air that Kills ii. ix. 87 Next there were terraces of tiny cottages built of red brick, several pubs and two chapels, one with boarded-up windows. 2. a. A building made of red brick. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [noun] framec1425 staddlec1563 sided1602 brick house1608 dobe1838 brick1844 adobe1852 shell1852 cinderblock1868 tin chapel1884 brick veneer1885 red brick1892 gambrel1917 weatherboard1925 Terrapin1949 Portakabin1963 1892 Catholic World June 352 Their home was a very modest red brick, of the unpretentious, comfortable style of architecture with which people were well contented a quarter of a century ago. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) xiv. 139 The restaurant was next door to the old red brick in which she hall-roomed. 1959 J. Kerouac Doctor Sax 5 Wagon boys outside (same who rushed among the downtown redbricks of my Chinese mystery). 1993 C. McCully Time Signatures 15 I wish the ruin back as it was before—accustomed stains, two redbricks back-to-back, and lights in different rooms. b. Usually in form redbrick. In early use (usually with capital initial): redbrick universities collectively (in contrast with Oxbridge). Now (as a count noun): = redbrick university n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > university > types of state college1806 state university1811 Oxbridge1849 Camford1850 state1899 multiversity1926 Ivy League1939 red brick1943 televersity1950 televarsity1961 1943 ‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick Univ. 19 It may be natural enough for him to go on to Redbrick, but to..enter Oxbridge is something infinitely more exciting. 1950 Times Educ. Suppl. 10 Mar. 183 (heading) Redbrick criticized. 1958 New 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 Times 14 Mar. 13/4 The University ‘Rag’..is now more closely identified with what the jargon calls ‘Redbrick’ rather than ‘Oxbridge’, with the world of Kingsley Amis rather than that of the young Compton Mackenzie. 1966 G. Sinstadt Whisper in Lonely Place iii. 33 He's a research engineer, degree from one of the red-bricks, middle twenties. 1975 D. Lodge Changing Places i. 9 Rummidge..had lately suffered the mortifying fate of most English universities of its type (civic redbrick). 1992 Times 12 Sept. (Sat. Review) 16/2 I became a first-generation university student, going not to hated Oxbridge but the local redbrick, a place of which even the KGB, even less the foreign office, had not heard. B. adj. Usually hyphenated or as one word. 1. Of the brownish red colour typical of red bricks; designating this colour; = brick-red adj. ΚΠ 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry xvii. 398 I have an Oak,..growing upon a red brick Earth, that is at least forty foot deep. 1712 J. Mortimer Art of Husbandry: Pt. II 150 The black Mould..will in time degenerate into a red-brick Earth. 1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening II. 205 The flowers..are small, of a red brick colour, appear in July, and the seeds ripen in the autumn. 1840 Med. Times 10 Oct. 16/2 Dissolved in azotic acid it gave no red-brick colour by the addition of ammoniacal nitrate of silver. 1871 R. F. Burton & C. F. T. Drake Unexplored Syria II. App. i. 291 The red-brick earth would give a brown tinge. 1912 Geogr. Jrnl. 40 373 On the Hawash the soil is blackish, here it is of a red-brick colour. 1998 R. Lehan City in Lit. iv. 58 Vautrin is one of Balzac's most memorable characters: he has red-brick hair concealed by a wig, a powerful physique, a resonant voice, piercing eyes, [etc.]. 2. Made of red bricks; built in red brick. ΚΠ 1769 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! II. i. xii. 125 The fine stone castle, built by King William (which, to the best of my remembrance, is a spacious red brick building). 1826 Gardener's Mag. Apr. 120 These old-fashioned red-brick residences are to be occasionally met with in their original state. 1845 E. Cook Poems 2nd Ser. 116 The child upon the red-brick floor. 1885 Cent. Mag. July 339/1 The rectory with its bright garden, the staring new red-brick school, a substantial farmhouse or two with well-filled rick-yard and long-roof out-buildings. 1920 E. Ferber Half Portions viii. 265 You saw him conversing hungrily with the gritty and taciturn Swede who was janitor for the block of red-brick flats. 1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 63 Lutyens also did the houses along the S end of Erskine Hill which leads up to the Square, of a fine restrained late C17 formality, in grey brick with red-brick dressings. 2007 Sunday Times Trav. May 69/1 She steers us round beds of pink azaleas that trace red-brick mansions and wrought-iron porches. 3. British. Usually in form redbrick. Of or characteristic of a redbrick university; that is a graduate of a redbrick university. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > university > types of university Oxbridge1850 non-collegiate1853 provincial1875 Ivy League1939 red brick1943 Oxbridgean1959 plate glass1968 1943 ‘B. Truscot’ Redbrick Univ. 18 The range of interests represented in a Redbrick staff common-room. 1958 Times 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. 1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories i. 41 Your man Frankie McLaughlin was redbrick,..he had a head as big as Birkenhead about himself. 2001 S. Walton Out of It (2002) p. xiv The parvenu guest, with his alternative haircut and redbrick degree. Compounds 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. Derivatives ˌred-ˈbricked adj. made of red bricks. ΚΠ 1818 F. Hall Trav. Canada & U.S. xxiv. 245 Here let me record the fame of the little red-bricked tavern, on the right hand side, near the entrance of the village. 1897 H. James Let. 1 Dec. (1984) IV. i. 63 Its nice old red-bricked front. 1996 Mail on Sunday 28 Apr. (Night & Day Suppl.) 8/2 Neat little red-bricked terraced flats in Robert Street. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1587
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