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Lombard Street

Definition of Lombard Street
  • a street in the City of London containing many of the principal London banks.

Origin:

so named because formerly occupied by bankers from Lombardy

Lombard Street in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Lombard Street in the US English dictionary
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