Etymology

Lombard Street

Today it means: A street, and the money and capital market of London. Full definition →

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The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.