Leghorn
noun
English name of Livorno.
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Leghorn
American
[leg-hawrn, leg-ern, -hawrn]
/ ˈlɛgˌhɔrn, ˈlɛg ərn, -ˌhɔrn /
noun
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English name of Livorno.
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(lowercase) a fine, smooth, plaited straw.
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(lowercase) a hat made of such straw, often having a broad, soft brim.
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one of a Mediterranean breed of chickens that are prolific layers of white-shelled eggs.
Leghorn
1
British
noun
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the English name for Livorno
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a breed of domestic fowl laying white eggs
leghorn
2
British
/ ˈlɛɡˌhɔːn /
noun
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a type of Italian wheat straw that is woven into hats
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any hat made from this straw when plaited
Etymology
Origin of leghorn
C19: named after Leghorn (Livorno)
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“Samy and I were always laughing, like, ‘If you just put Foghorn Leghorn into this one scene from ‘The Verdict,’ it would be hilarious,’” Green says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
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.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
Who cares if he sounds like Foghorn Leghorn?
From The Verge ● Sep. 12, 2022
With his exaggerated Southern accent, he affects a mixture of Mr. Haney, the con artist of the 1960s CBS sitcom “Green Acres,” and the bombastic Looney Tunes rooster, Foghorn J. Leghorn.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
I sneaked out of the room, went out on the back porch, and stood watching Granny’s White Leghorn rooster chase the dominecker hens and the Rhode Island Reds.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Our white leghorn hens, generally a sociable crew, had ganged up on one miserable hen that had somehow acquired a scratch on her neck.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2013
Livorno, in Tuscany, is the home of leghorn hats and the fencing school where Aide's father, Beppe, has been coaching Italian swordsmen for half a century.
From Time Magazine Archive
A leghorn named White Flyer escapes in the transfer from box to scale and flies into heavy brush a hundred feet away.
From Time Magazine Archive
Four young men from Youngstown, wearing orange shirts that identify them as manager, coaches and trainer of a leghorn named Otis, have a special technique.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just then an old white leghorn hen came sailing out of our henhouse, flapping her wings and cackling her head off.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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