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Leghorn
[ leg-hawrn leg-ern, -hawrn ]
noun
- English name of Livorno.
- (lowercase) a fine, smooth, plaited straw.
- (lowercase) a hat made of such straw, often having a broad, soft brim.
- one of a Mediterranean breed of chickens that are prolific layers of white-shelled eggs.
leghorn
1/ ˈlɛɡˌhɔːn /
noun
- a type of Italian wheat straw that is woven into hats
- any hat made from this straw when plaited
Leghorn
2noun
- ˈlɛɡˌhɔːn the English name for Livorno
- lɛˈɡɔːn a breed of domestic fowl laying white eggs
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
“They killed Foghorn Leghorn, right in front of his teammates,” says one historian.
Dreyfuss enthusiastically deploys the Foghorn Leghorn manner of the mid-19th century pre-microphone politician.
Her plain purple coat and wide Leghorn hat, with black ribbons, had the effect not of elegance, but of insignificance.
A pair of brown eyes were gravely fixed on her from under the shade of the Leghorn hat.
I don't blame the youngsters for getting off from Leghorn for two days over here in town when they can.
It was in Leghorn, where he was on board a yacht called the Lola, of which he represented himself as owner.
At Leghorn the ship lay for a month,—the first period of repose since she went into commission, a year and a half before.
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