leghorn

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Noun
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leg=horn

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun leghorn has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

leghornn. 
     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.

Etymology
Leghorn (Livorno) in Italy, from where the straw and fowls were imported

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