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EncyclopediaLombard StreetLombard 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. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on Lombard Street from Infoplease:
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- Edward Lloyd - Biography of Edward Lloyd, The coffee shop host who gave Lloyd's of London its name
- Lombard - Lombard (A). A banker or moneylender, so called because the first bankers were from Lombardy, and ...
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