Lombard Street

Definitions

1. A street, and the money and capital market of London.
2. A street in San Francisco, California with eight hairpin bends.

Equivalents

Examples

“Bankruptcy must inevitably have⟳ come⟳ of this young pagan in Lombard Street, London”

“Lombard Street is thus a perpetual agent between the two great divisions of England”

“... and it is no wonder⟳ that there were active relations between the bourse in Bruges and Lombard Street in London.”

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