plate-glass university

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education. UK
    — The new “red-bricks” of Hull, Exeter and Leicester were followed in the 60s by mass expansion as the “plate-glass universities”, such as Warwick, York and Sussex, came into being.

词形变化

plate-glass universities plural plate glass university alternative

词源

Modelled on red brick university, from the use of plate glass in modern architecture. Coined by British barrister Michael Beloff in 1970.
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