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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Oxbridge .
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Examples
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The Craig Bond might know no French at all; he's not the suave, Oxbridgian 007 of legend but the strong, silent type, almost a thug for hire, and no smoother with a sardonic quip than John Kerry.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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“I must apologise for my singular appearance,” he said in his most plummy Oxbridgian.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006
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Furthermore, what I've seen has a distinct classicist bias, presumably derived from the Oxbridgian Latin-Greek bias.
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As a result, they have been forever untethered from their old, stuffy Oxbridgian associations.
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