leghorn

See also: Leghorn

English

Alternative forms

• Leghorn (chicken breed)

Etymology

Mid 18th century: from Leghorn (“Livorno”), the place the straw and fowls were imported from.

a leghorn chicken

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡhɔːn/, /lɛˈɡɔːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡhɔɹn/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

Noun

leghorn (countable and uncountable, plural leghorns)

1. (uncountable) A type of dried plaited wheat straw fabric.
2. (countable) A type of hat made from Leghorn straw.
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 65:

     When straw-hats had become unfashionable, Mrs. Nollekens hinted to old White, the hatter […] , that possibly he could accommodate her with a Leghorn hat at a moderate rate.

   • 1918, Schedules M and N, free list, customs administration and income tax; subject index, page 1515:

     The difference between the two classifications has always been intended to cover unblocked and untrimmed hat bodies, such as panamas, bangkoks, and leghorns, and other hats which are woven by the natives in South American and oriental countries where they are produced.

3. (countable) A small white chicken of a hardy breed.

Translations

small white chicken breed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 來亨雞／来亨鸡 (zh) (láihéngjī), 力康雞／力康鸡 (lìkāngjī)

• Czech: leghornka f
• Dutch: leghorn (nl) m
• Finnish: leghorn
• French: leghorn (fr) f
• Georgian: ლეგჰორნი (leghorni)
• German: Leghorn n
• Greek: λέγκχορν f (légkchorn)
• Hebrew: לֶגְהוֹרְן m (leghórn)
• Italian: livorno f, livornese (it) f, gallina livornese f, galletto livornese m
• Japanese: レグホーン (reguhōn), レグホン (reguhon)
• Korean: 레그혼 (ko) (regeuhon)
• Kyrgyz: леггорн (ky) (leggorn)
• Malayalam: വൈറ്റ് ലെഗോൺ (vaiṟṟŭ legōṇ)
• Persian: لگرن (legarn)
• Portuguese: legorne f
• Romanian: leghorn (ro) n
• Russian: легго́рн (ru) m (leggórn), легго́рнка (ru) f (leggórnka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лѐгхорн m

  Roman: lèghorn (sh) m

• Tamil: லெக்கார்ன் கோழி (lekkārṉ kōḻi)
• Ukrainian: легго́рн (uk) m (lehhórn)
• Uzbek: leggorn
• Vietnamese: gà Leghorn, gà Lơ-go

Anagrams

• Herlong

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English leghorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛx.ɦɔrn/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: leg‧horn

Noun

leghorn m (plural leghorns)

1. leghorn, breed of chicken from Livorno

French

Noun

leghorn f (plural leghorns)

1. leghorn

Further reading

• “leghorn”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.