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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lombard \Lom"bard\, prop. n. [F. lombard, fr. the Longobardi or Langobardi, i. e., Longbeards, a people of Northern Germany, west of the Elbe, and afterward in Northern Italy. See Long, and Beard, and cf. Lumber.]
A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
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Same as Lombard-house.
A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns.
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(Mil.) A form of cannon formerly in use.
--Prescott.Lombard Street, the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.
Lombard \Lom"bard\, prop. a. Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Late Latin Langobardus, proper name of a Germanic people who conquered Italy 6c. and settled in the northern region that became known as Lombardy, from Proto-Germanic Langgobardoz, often said to mean literally "Long-beards," but perhaps rather from *lang- "tall, long" + the proper name of the people (Latin Bardi). Their name in Old English was Langbeardas (plural), but also Heaðobeardan, from heaðo "war."\n
\nIn Middle English the word meant "banker, money-changer, pawnbroker" (late 14c.), from Old French Lombart "Lombard," also "money-changer; usurer; coward," from Italian Lombardo (from Medieval Latin Lombardus).\n
\nLombards in Middle Ages were notable throughout Western Europe as bankers and money-lenders, also pawn-brokers; they established themselves in France from 13c., especially in Montpellier and Cahors, and London's Lombard Street (c.1200) originally was the site of the houses of Lombard bankers. French also gave the word in this sense to Middle Dutch and Low German. Lombardy poplar, originally from Italy but planted in North American colonies as an ornamental tree, is attested from 1766.
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Housing Units (2000): 17019
Land area (2000): 9.685143 sq. miles (25.084403 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.014180 sq. miles (0.036726 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.699323 sq. miles (25.121129 sq. km)
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Location: 41.875979 N, 88.015060 W
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Wikipedia
The term Lombard refers to members of or things related, directly or indirectly, to Lombardy, a region in northern Italy encompassing in the past all of northern Italy.
Lombard is a British-based finance company that specialise in asset based lending, founded in 1861. It is one of the largest finance houses in the United Kingdom and has been part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group since 2000.
Lombard started life with an investment in the railways of the mid-nineteenth century leasing wagons.
Lombard is a Polish pop-rock band founded in 1981. Lombard has recorded many albums with well-known and well-liked hits, held thousands of concerts gathering masses of audience. The invariable leader of Lombard is Grzegorz Stróżniak, the composer of all the band’s greatest hits as well as most other tracks. Many of the hits were produced in the 1980s and often resulted from Stróżniak's cooperation with the band's female vocalist at that time, Małgorzata Ostrowska. Stróżniak is also the only owner of the band’s name and the continuator of Lombard’s tradition. In 1999 Marta Cugier became Lombard’s vocalist.
A lombard, also known as a lonbarda, wallbreaker, or quebrantamuro, was a smoothbore cannon used in the early Renaissance in Spain and Italy. This cannon was also used as an alarm to alert Christopher Columbus on the first of his voyages that land - what is now known as the Bahamas - had been sighted.
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Lombard is an English language bimonthly finance and business magazine published in Milan, Italy.
Lombard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adrian Lombard (1915–1967), British aeronautical engineer
- Alain Lombard, French conductor
- Alvin Orlando Lombard (1856–1937), American inventor of the continuous track vehicle
- André Lombard, Swiss chess player
- Anthony Lombard, former Mayor of Gibraltar
- Carole Lombard (1908–1942), Hollywood actress
- Claude Lombard, Belgian singer
- Denys Lombard, scholar
- Didier Lombard, French businessman
- Émile Lombard (painter)
- Émile Lombard (biblical scholar)
- Émile Lombard (cyclist)
- Étienne Lombard (1869–1920), French otolaryngologist known for discovering the Lombard effect
- Fleur Lombard, firefighter
- George Lombard (born 1975), Major League Baseball player
- Gustav Lombard (1895–1992), German General of the Waffen SS
- Hector Lombard (born 1978), mixed martial arts fighter
- Jean Lombard, French novelist
- Jim Lombard, Florida politician
- John Lombard, football coach
- Karina Lombard, French-American actress
- Lambert Lombard (1505–1566), Flemish Renaissance architect
- Louise Lombard (born 1970 Louise Maria Perkins), British actress
- Montserrat Lombard (born 1982), British actress
- Olivier Lombard, French racing driver
- Peter Lombard (archbishop of Armagh)
- Peter Lombard (c. 1100 – 1160), scholastic philosopher and bishop of the 12th century
- Robert Lombard, Apostolic clergyman
- Sébastien Lombard, French football player
- Thomas Lombard, French rugby player
- Yvonne Lombard (born 1929), Swedish actress known from the film A Lesson in Love
Usage examples of "lombard".
As the successor of the Lombards, the chagan asserted his claim to the important city of Sirmium, the ancient bulwark of the Illyrian provinces.
Romilda was condemned to the embraces of twelve Avars, and the third day the Lombard princess was impaled in the sight of the camp, while the chagan observed with a cruel smile, that such a husband was the fit recompense of her lewdness and perfidy.
They affected to deride the palaces, the banquets, the polished manner of the Italians, who in the estimate of the Greeks themselves had degenerated from the liberty and valor of the ancient Lombards.
Cornhill and Lombard Street flashed back upon him for a second, then dived away and hid their faces for ever, as he passed the low grey wall beside the church where first he had seen the lame boy hobbling, and had realised that the whole world suffered.
To certain Lombards ready in their hond The sum of gold, and got of them his bond, And home he went, merry as a popinjay.
I sent a letter to Sir Robert Thaneth to Rushmer by Ypswych by the wagonman who is at ynn at the George in Lombard Streete.
He recalled the late 1950S when Roland Lombard, a veterinarian and musher from Massachusetts, stunned the racing community by becoming the first man from outside to win a major Alaskan race.
Lombard became: the key to all these incredible events was to be found in the polyhedral cylinder on which they had bestowed so fitting a nickname.
Adoo demanded, while Lombard privately wondered why he had been so impressed, as a mere ungraduate student, by the idea of acceptance into the fraternity.
Lombard checked his watch, made a mental adjustment of time-zones, and discovered that at precisely this moment ten days earlier he had been at the fraternity building on the edge of the Afrasian U.
Bryar, another top challenger from the lower forty-eight, and Lombard ran teams of registered Siberian Huskies against the Alaskan village dogs.
Soon Bedaux acquired the additional adornment of a socially impeccable spouse in the person of Fern Lombard, the daughter of a Michigan tycoon.
Corsicans who formed the papal bodyguard, German typographers, French perfumers and glovemakers, Teutonic bakers, Spanish booksellers, Lombard carpenters from the Campo Marzio, Dalmatian boatbuilders, Greek copyists, Portuguese trunkmakers from the Via dei Baullari, goldsmiths from beside San Giorgio.
Cornhill and Lombard Street flashed back upon him for a second, then dived away and hid their faces for ever, as he passed the low grey wall beside the church where first he had seen the lame boy hobbling, and had realised that the whole world suffered.
Vandals, Huns, Gepidae, Lombards, Heruli all came and went without leaving any notable traces.