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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡhɔːn/, /lɛˈɡɔːn/
• 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) Designating a type of hat made from Leghorn straw.
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 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.

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

Translations

small white chicken breed

• Chinese:

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

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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

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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.