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Lombard Street

noun

  1. a street in London, England: a financial center.


Lombard Street

noun

  1. the British financial and banking world


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Lombard Street1

C16: from a street in London once occupied by Lombard bankers

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Example Sentences

War and Lombard Street treats only with the beginning of a very big subject.

These problems will exercise all the ingenuity and strength that Lombard Street can muster.

Lombard Street has thus shown that it has fully learnt the only lesson that the external side of the crisis had to teach it.

And he walked into Lombard Street with the feelings of a culprit walking up the scaffold to his execution.

The coach being ordered accordingly, transported the worthy citizen and his charge to his mansion in Lombard Street.

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