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Examples of leghorn
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Leghorn is home to the Italian Naval Academy as well as several smaller colleges.
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The leghorn variety of chicken was named after the city.
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Fast egg-laying white leghorn chickens and quick-growing large white pigs are other examples of high-yield stock.
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They include marsh tacky horses, mammoth jackstock mule, guinea hogs, pineywoods cattle and leghorn chickens.
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The city also lent its name to a kind of fine plaited straw produced there and, by extension, to the leghorn hats made from the material.
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- Boater: a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- Livorno , traditionally called Leghorn (pronounced "Leggun") in English, is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of approximately 160,000 residents in 2009. ...
- The Leghorn is a breed of chicken with origins in Tuscany, central Italy. The first birds imported to North America in 1853 were called Italians. By 1865 the breed was named after the Italian city of Livorno, on the western edge of Tuscany, which in English is also known as Leghorn.
- A breed of mostly white poultry; the town of Livorno in Italy
- CODENAME for radio relay site established 15 January 1967 atop a remote pinnacle in Laos, and operated continuously for the next five years; see HICKORY, BLACK LADY MOUNTAIN, RR; compare SITE 85.
