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leghorns

leghorns is the plural of leghorn.

Meaning of leghorn

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.
    • 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.1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 65
  3. (countable) A small white chicken of a hardy breed.

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Noun capitalized: Leghorns

Leghorns

  1. (plural) plural of Leghorn

Questions about leghorns

What is leghorns the plural of?
Leghorns is the plural of leghorn.
What part of speech is leghorns?
Leghorns is a noun.

Words near leghorns in the dictionary

  1. leghold
  2. legholds
  3. leghole
  4. legholes
  5. leghorn
  6. leghorns
  7. legibilities
  8. legibility
  9. legible
  10. legibleness
  11. legibly

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