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leghorn
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun leghorn has 1 sense
- leghorn(n = noun.artifact) boater, panama, panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat - a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown; Array is a kind of chapeau, hat, lid
CIDE DICTIONARY
leghorn, n.
A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
leghorn, n.
1 a fine plaited straw. b a hat of this.
2 (Leghorn) a a bird of a small hardy breed of domestic fowl. b this breed.
1 a fine plaited straw. b a hat of this.
2 (Leghorn) a a bird of a small hardy breed of domestic fowl. b this breed.
Etymology
Leghorn (Livorno) in Italy, from where the straw and fowls were imported
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