Leghorn

[leg-hawrn, leg-ern, -hawrn]

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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

noun

the English name for Livorno
a breed of domestic fowl laying white eggs

leghorn

/ ˈ��ɛɡˌ��ɔː�� /

noun

a type of Italian wheat straw that is woven into hats
any hat made from this straw when plaited

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Leghorn¹

C19: named after _Leghorn (Livorno)

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Example Sentences

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The Kipnis family has Italian citizenship through a paternal grandmother who hailed from Leghorn and moved to Israel, via Tunisia, after the Holocaust.

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“Bantam White Leghorn, from the sound of it.”

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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.

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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.

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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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