red brick university

== English == === Alternative forms === redbrick university === Etymology === From the memoir Redbrick University by Edgar Allison Peers, whose titular university is based on the University of Liverpool. Liverpool, like most urban universities of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, extensively uses red clay bricks in its architecture. === Noun === red brick university (plural red brick universities) (UK) Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city. === See also === Oxbridge plate-glass university