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Leg⋅horn

  [leg-hawrn for 1–3; leg-ern, -hawrn for 4]
–noun
1. English name of Livorno.
2. (lowercase) a fine, smooth, plaited straw.
3. (lowercase) a hat made of such straw, often having a broad, soft brim.
4. one of a Mediterranean breed of chickens that are prolific layers of white-shelled eggs.
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Li⋅vor⋅no

  [lee-vawr-naw]
–noun
a seaport in W Italy on the Ligurian Sea. 177,526.
English, Leghorn.
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leg·horn   (lěg'hôrn', -ərn)   
n.  

    1. The dried and bleached straw of an Italian variety of wheat.

    2. A plaited fabric made from this straw.

    3. A hat made from this fabric.

  2. often Leghorn Any of a breed of small, hardy domestic fowl of Mediterranean origin, noted for prolific production of eggs.


[After Leghorn.]
Leghorn  
See Livorno.
Li·vor·no   (lē-vōr'nō)   
A city of northwest Italy on the Ligurian Sea southeast of Genoa. A fortified town in the Middle Ages, Livorno was developed into a flourishing community by the Medici. Population: 161,000.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Leghorn 
breed of fowl, 1869, from Leghorn, city in Italy (modern Livorno, 16c.-17c. Legorno), from L. Liburnus.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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