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noun
Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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History
Modelled on red brick university, from the use of plate glass in modern architecture. Coined by British barrister Michael Beloff in 1970.
