Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A charitable institution for lending money to the poor at a very low rate or gratis.
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Examples
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And then you go on to say that this final treasury is also to be the last lending-house; that out of it unbounded, or at any rate immense, advances are to be made when no once else lends.
Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851
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