Lombard Street

English

Etymology

A London street, the site of a colony of Lombard Jewish merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th century.

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Proper noun

Lombard Street

1. A street, and the money and capital market of London.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities‎^[1], 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^[2], page 317:

     ... and it is no wonder that there were active relations between the bourse in Bruges and Lombard Street in London.

2. A street in San Francisco, California with eight hairpin bends.

Derived terms

• Lombard Street to a China orange

Translations

money and capital market of London

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倫巴第街／伦巴第街 (Lúnbādì Jiē)

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