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Definition of Lombard Street

Lombard Street
Lombard Lom"bard, n. [F. lombard, fr. the Longobardi or Langobardi, i. e., Longbeards, a people of Northern Germany, west of the Elbe, and afterward in Northern Italy. See Long, and Beard, and cf. Lumber.] 1. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy. 2. A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards. 3. Same as Lombard-house. A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. --Fuller. 4. (Mil.) A form of cannon formerly in use. --Prescott. Lombard Street, the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.

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- Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street...
- Lombard Street may refer to: Lombard Street, London, England Rue des Lombards, Paris, France Lombard Street, Petworth, shopping street in Petworth Lombard...
- Lombard Street (/ˈlɒmbərd, -bɑːrd/) is a street notable for its connections with the City of London's merchant, banking and insurance industries, stretching...
- Lombard Street is a major street in Baltimore. It forms a one-way pair of streets with Pratt Street that run west–east through downtown Baltimore. For...
- The Lombard Street riot was a three-day race riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1842. The riot was the last in a 13-year period marked by frequent...
- Fisherman's Wharf, a po****r tourist area. A trip down the winding turns of Lombard Street and across Columbus Avenue to the east leads to the neighborhood of...
- Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (1873) is a book by Walter Bagehot. Bagehot was one of the first writers to describe and explain the...
- Lombard banking refers to the business of Italian moneylenders generally referred to as "Lombards" (in medieval times Northern Italy was referred as Lombardy...
- pawn-brokers. For example, London's Lombard Street (1598) owes its name to such Lombard bankers. The term "Lombard loan" are historiographical constructs...
- sinuosity of Lombard and Vermont streets and found that Vermont is indeed more crooked (with a sinuosity of 1.56 versus 1.2 for Lombard Street). This is...