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Leghorn

[ leg-hawrn leg-ern, -hawrn ]

noun

  1. English name of Livorno.
  2. (lowercase) a fine, smooth, plaited straw.
  3. (lowercase) a hat made of such straw, often having a broad, soft brim.
  4. one of a Mediterranean breed of chickens that are prolific layers of white-shelled eggs.


leghorn

1

/ ˈ±ôɛɡˌ³óÉ”Ë²Ô /

noun

  1. a type of Italian wheat straw that is woven into hats
  2. any hat made from this straw when plaited
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Leghorn

2

noun

  1. ˈ±ôɛɡˌ³óÉ”Ë²Ô the English name for Livorno
  2. ±ôÉ›ËˆÉ¡É”Ë²Ô a breed of domestic fowl laying white eggs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of Leghorn1

C19: named after Leghorn (Livorno)
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The Kipnis family has Italian citizenship through a paternal grandmother who hailed from Leghorn and moved to Israel, via Tunisia, after the Holocaust.

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“Bantam White Leghorn, from the sound of it.â€

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Oh, and there’s the detective Benoit Blanc, Daniel Craig’s Southern detective, along for the ride to solve for x with his distinctive Foghorn Leghorn bray and spoilery self-satisfaction.

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Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc, the master detective with the Foghorn Leghorn accent who is once again summoned by rich eccentrics to solve a mystery.

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Blanc is once again played by a floridly post-Bond Daniel Craig, now sporting an absurd but somehow appropriate collection of neckerchiefs and pastel shirts, and speaking in what was once described as a “Kentucky Fried Chicken Foghorn Leghorn†accent.

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