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Doxbridge
Portmanteau of Durham, Oxford, and Cambridge / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doxbridge is a portmanteau of Durham, Oxford, and Cambridge, referring to the universities of those names.[1] It is an expansion of the more popular portmanteau Oxbridge, referring to Oxford and Cambridge universities and similar to the portmanteau Loxbridge, referring to London, Oxford and Cambridge.[2]
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The Doxbridge portmanteau has failed to gain widespread recognition and is usually used tongue-in-cheek.[1][3][4][5][6] Nonetheless, many of the characteristics used to identify Oxford and Cambridge as distinct from other British universities are also identifiable to varying extents in Durham,[7][8][9] and the term has been used seriously in analysis of the legal jobs market.[10]