redbrick

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The only problem I can see is the regeneration of Digbeth will see existing buildings either restored to their redbrick glory or replaced with shiny new things that might not lend themselves to being covered in art.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or being the British universities other than Oxford and Cambridge.

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  • Many memorials to Hughes exist throughout the country, but certainly one of the biggest and most dynamic, and probably the one he'd have been most proud of, was an old, redbrick, four-story building in Harlem, located near Lennox Terrace on 135th Street. —  The Twelfth Card
  • The street was some kind of redbrick or cobblestone, not the comp you found everywhere else. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
  • Guarding the take-up would be universities - the familiar ancient redbrick and new ones, plus the expanding network of Children's Universities and the Universities of the First and Third Ages. —  Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk
  • From the front, the redbrick semi in Bovingdon, near Hemel Hempstead, looks rather ordinary, with a scraggy hedge, a couple of garages to one side and a boring-looking car in the driveway. —  Home | Mail Online
  • He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy, had bought something new for the corner room of their big redbrick house. —  Mandy Stadtmiller dot com
 

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  1. So-called because many of the buildings of such universities were built of red bricks.
 

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