Lombard Street

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

Lombard Street

1. The money and capital market of London.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, page 312:

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

   • 1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market:

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

   • 1963, Raymond de Roover, The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank: 1397-1494, page 317:

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