Lombar-house: Definition and part of speech

Lombar-house

  1. n. A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; — called also mont de piete.
  2. n. A bank or a pawnbroker’s shop.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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