Lombard Street

American  

noun

1. a street in London, England: a financial center.

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Lombard Street British  

noun

1. the British financial and banking world

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Etymology

Origin of Lombard Street

C16: from a street in London once occupied by Lombard bankers

Example Sentences

It will begin at the junction of South Lotts Road and Ringsend Road and travel across McMahon Bridge and down Pearse Street to the junction of Lombard Street East and Westland Row.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

Portsmouth Union has partnered with Good Space Property Management to convert a piece of the church property into a 20-unit apartment building on the corner of North Fiske Avenue and Lombard Street.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2023

His apartment on Russian Hill has a trophy view of San Francisco Bay and the tight curves of Lombard Street.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2020

Even when Talbot and Fails risk unraveling the film’s most cherished verities, they do so with the mesmerizing grace of a skateboard gliding down Lombard Street.

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2019

After parking the department’s speedy beefed-up hovercar on the roof of the San Francisco Hall of Justice on Lombard Street, bounty hunter Rick Deckard, briefcase in hand, descended to Harry Bryant’s office.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick