Lombard Street

noun

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

Lombard Street

noun

1. the British financial and banking world

Word History and Origins

Origin of Lombard Street¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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