ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century
How To Use red-brick In A Sentence
- Number forty-seven was a huge red-brick house in gracious grounds, with a double garage and parking space for three more cars.
- On the other side of campus, the sun beats on new red-brick buildings with modern angles and minimalist steeples.
- The fine red-brick Victorian building complete with clock tower used to be the administrative building of the local county asylum. Times, Sunday Times
- The nearly century-old red-brick structure and clocktower are where the film's patriotic students hatch their plan to assassinate a Japanese-allied Chinese spy.
- Until recently, its investigators have been mostly nameless, the millions of words issuing from its government-issue red-brick offices mostly anonymous.
- The plain red-brick chimney of the old mill came as a relief to the eye after so much beautiful gold stone. Times, Sunday Times
- `If you ask me," he said gloomily, `the red-brick seems not so much Ivy League as in league with the ivy. A DEAD LIBERTY
- The fine red-brick Victorian building complete with clock tower used to be the administrative building of the local county asylum. Times, Sunday Times
- A park full of merry hay-makers; gay red and blue waggons; stalwart horses switching off the flies; dark avenues of tall elms; groups of abele, 'tossing their whispering silver to the sun'; and amid them the house, -- a great square red-brick mass, made light and cheerful though by quoins and windows of white Sarsden stone, with high peaked French roofs, broken by louvres and dormers, haunted by a thousand swallows and starlings. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
- The stately 1991 building serves as the hub of the Chicago Public Library system; its red-brick façade evokes a Beaux-Arts style, while its roof is topped with soaring bronze acroteria. PHOTOS: Harold Washington Library, One Of The Most Beautiful In America