Lombard Street
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English
Etymology
A London street, the site of a colony of Lombard Jewish merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th century.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
- A street, and the money and capital market of London.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, page 312:
- Bankruptcy must inevitably have come of this young pagan in Lombard Street, London
- 1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market:
- Lombard Street is thus a perpetual agent between the two great divisions of England
- 1963, Raymond de Roover, The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank: 1397-1494, page 317:
- ... and it is no wonder that there were active relations between the bourse in Bruges and Lombard Street in London.
- A street in San Francisco, California with eight hairpin bends.
Derived terms
Translations
money and capital market of London
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