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Lombard Street, in London, England. It is a street of banks and financial houses that takes its name from the Lombard merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th cent. Lombard Street London bankers’ row; named for 13th-century Italian moneylenders. [Br. Hist.: Plumb, 15] See : Finance |
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From ten in the morning till two, he sites in his office in Lombard Street, and the pulse of the city beats differently in his absence. I was going through Lombard Street in the dusk of the evening, just by the end of Three King court, when on a sudden comes a fellow running by me as swift as lightning, and throws a bundle that was in his hand, just behind me, as I stood up against the corner of the house at the turning into the alley. Godfrey happened to be cashing a cheque at a banking-house in Lombard Street. |
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