Lombard Street love

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  • proper noun a road in the City of London, near the Bank of England, that runs from Gracechurch Street to the junction of Poultry and Cornhill

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  • noun a street in central London containing many of the major London banks

Etymologies

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The site of a colony of Lombard Jewish merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th century

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