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Leghorn
[leg-hawrn, leg-ern, -hawrn]
noun
English name of Livorno.
(lowercase)Ìýa fine, smooth, plaited straw.
(lowercase)Ìýa 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
1noun
the English name for Livorno
a breed of domestic fowl laying white eggs
leghorn
2/ ˈ±ôɛɡˌ³óÉ”Ë²Ô /
noun
a type of Italian wheat straw that is woven into hats
any hat made from this straw when plaited
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of Leghorn1
Example Sentences
The Kipnis family has Italian citizenship through a paternal grandmother who hailed from Leghorn and moved to Israel, via Tunisia, after the Holocaust.
“Bantam White Leghorn, from the sound of it.â€
Oh, and there’s the detective Benoit Blanc, Daniel Craig’s Southern detective, along for the ride to solve for x with his distinctive Foghorn Leghorn bray and spoilery self-satisfaction.
Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc, the master detective with the Foghorn Leghorn accent who is once again summoned by rich eccentrics to solve a mystery.
Blanc is once again played by a floridly post-Bond Daniel Craig, now sporting an absurd but somehow appropriate collection of neckerchiefs and pastel shirts, and speaking in what was once described as a “Kentucky Fried Chicken Foghorn Leghorn†accent.
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