Leghorn
['lɛgɚn]
Definition
(n.) A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.
Editor: Vanessa
Definition
n. fine plait for bonnets and hats made in Tuscany: a bonnet of this material: a small breed of the common domestic fowl.
Checked by Hugo
Examples
- He studied at Leghorn under Professor Rosa, and later at the University of Bologna with Professor Righi. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You pay five and six dollars apiece for fine linen shirts in Paris; here and in Leghorn you pay two and a half. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He designed the piers of Leghorn and the custom house regulations of Civita Vecchia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Some of our party have gone to England, intending to take a roundabout course and rejoin the vessel at Leghorn or Naples several weeks hence. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We shall not go ashore in Leghorn. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We reached Leghorn in time to see all we wished to see of it long before the city gates were closed for the evening, and then came on board the ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Stand out for Leghorn. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The husband was come home, then; and the two together put her aboard a small trader bound to Leghorn, and from that to France. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Civita Vecchia, Leghorn, Porto Fino, Genoa, Cornice, Off Nice (which is in there), Marseilles, you and me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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