Leghorn
pronunciation
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- Noun:
- a stiff straw hat with a flat crown
Word Origin
- Leghorn
- breed of fowl, 1869, from Leghorn, city in Italy (modern Livorno, 16c.-17c. Legorno), from Latin Liburnus, from the native people name Liburni, which is of unknown signification.
Example
- 1. The leghorn barber said nothing and went to work .
- 2. In this state of mutual understanding , they reached leghorn .
- 3. As he had twenty times touched at leghorn , he remembered a barber in st. ferdinand street ; he went there to have his beard and hair cut .
- 4. We had been to lucca to take in oil , to leghorn for english cottons , and we ran our cargo without opposition , and returned home full of joy .
- 5. The master was to get all this out of leghorn free of duties , and land it on the shores of corsica , where certain speculators undertook to forward the cargo to france .