Lombard street

name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A street, and the money and capital market of London.

    "Bankruptcy must inevitably have come of this young pagan in Lombard Street, London"

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

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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