English Explanatory Dictionary

plate-glass university

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.

Word forms

plate-glass university plate-glass universities plate glass university

Etymology

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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