Leghorn adjective & noun. [lɛ'gɔ:n, 'lɛghɔ:n] Esp. in sense 1 also leghorn. M18.
[Anglicized from Italian Legorno, now Livorno (repr. Latin Liburnus), a port in Tuscany, western Italy.]
1. (Designating) a fine straw plaiting of a kind originally imported from Livorno; (designating) a hat made from such plaiting. M18.

2. (A bird of) a breed of small hardy domestic fowl. M19.

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