Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- See Livorno.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fine kind of plait for bonnets and hats made in Tuscany from the straw of a peculiar variety of wheat, Triticum vulgare (turgi-dum), thickly sown, cut green, and bleached: so named because exported from Leghorn.
- n. A bonnet or hat made of this material.
- n. [capitalized] An important breed of the common domestic fowl, of the Spanish type, characterized by great activity and rather small size, high, serrated comb, drooping to one side in the hen, and white ear-lobes. The chief varieties are the brown (colored like black-breasted red games), and the white, dominique or cuckoo, and black Leghorns, all but the last having yellow legs and beak. The Leghorns are noted as being perhaps the most prolific layers of all poultry.
- Pertaining to or brought from the city of Leghorn; also, made of or relating to Leghorn straw: as, a Leghorn bonnet or hat.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
Examples
“Leghorn is most famous in the U.S. for its chicken, the most popular chicken in the world.”
“Cartoon chicken Foghorn Leghorn is leading strong opposition among Republican legislators against President Barack Obama's nomination to replace retiring Supreme Court justice David Souter.”
“If we do not make a stand we shall in a few weeks be asked to call Leghorn ‘Livorno,’ and the BBC will be pronouncing ‘Paris’ Paree.”
“But the real author of its greatness was Ferdinand I, who called Leghorn "his mistress".”
“To have a Leghorn was the thing; and Miss Hinsdale imported those of many qualities and prices, to suit customers.”
“I was going then to view at close quarters the port of Leghorn, which is famous for its mole and lighthouse and quarantine, the first of their kind in their time.”
“So we can go from here to Leghorn, which is the seaport for Florence, by the railroad, and there we can take a steamboat and go to Civita Vecchia, which is the seaport for Rome.”
“Nay at Leghorn, which is within a day's sailing of Corsica, and has a constant intercourse with it, I found people who dissuaded me from going thither, because it might be dangerous.”
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
“Leghorn, meaning to act with the other from the Riviera.”
The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain
“She wore always an enormous flat-brimmed "Leghorn" hat, trimmed with ostrich feathers.”
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