Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lloyd's

An association of underwriters, for marine insurances. So called because the society removed in 1716 from Cornhill to a coffee-house in Lombard Street kept by a man named Lloyd.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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