leghorn

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Milly's old leghorn, I declare, and my pink feathers.

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  1. noun The dried and bleached straw of an Italian variety of wheat.
  2. noun A plaited fabric made from this straw.
  3. noun A hat made from this fabric.

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  • EX: pixels scenes show with colorful squares, but when i play on computer it plays fine! leghorn —  VideoHelp.com Forum
  • Aramis Ramirez has a well-publicized passion for cockfighting and leghorn would give him the taste of home because he's a huge, huge cock. —  Bugs & Cranks
  • Milly's old leghorn, I declare, and my pink feathers. —  About Peggy Saville
  • And the leghorn, unsuited to trials of wind and weather, was left at home The woman--Raymond her name was--was passing the school on horseback, and she stopped in to get a drink. —  The Wrong Woman
  • On warm days Mrs. Flint would drag these two daughters of hers into the office, dressed in plaid suits and velveteen hats; and when a cold north wind blew it seemed inevitable that they would appear in gay and airy costumes up to their knees, with impossible straw bonnets trimmed with daisies and faded cornflowers, reminiscent of the white-leghorn-hat era Men don't marry women for their clothes," Miss Munch used to say, challengingly, to Nellie Oh, don't they, indeed! —  The Blood Red Dawn
 

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  1. After Leghorn .

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  1. So called from Leghorn, French Livourne = Spanish Liorna = Portuguese Liorne, from Italian Livorno, from Latin Liburnus, Greek Λίβουρνος (Ptolemy), a sea-port in Tuscany.
 

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/ˈlɛghɔrn/
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