Lombard Street en · PROPN
Pronunciation
Etymology
A London street, the site of a colony of Lombard Jewish merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th century.
Meanings
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A street, and the money and capital market of London.
Lombard Street is thus a perpetual agent between the two great divisions of England
1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market:Bankruptcy must inevitably have come of this young pagan in Lombard Street, London
1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, page 312:... and it is no wonder that there were active relations between the bourse in Bruges and Lombard Street in London.
1963, Raymond de Roover, The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank: 1397-1494, page 317:
- A street in San Francisco, California with eight hairpin bends.
Deriveds
Lombard Street to a China orange
Translations (3)
cmn 倫巴第街 /伦巴第街 (money and capital market of London) · fr Lombard Street (money and capital market of London) · fi Lombard Street (money and capital market of London)