leghorn

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Recent Examples of leghorn The Most Common Breed of Egg-Laying Chicken is the White Leghorn The breed was first imported to America in 1828 from the Italian port city of Livorno; leghorn is an anglicization of the city's name. Fox News, 29 Oct. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leghorn
Noun
  • She was last seen wearing a white tank top, gray skinny ripped jeans and a pink bonnet in her hair.
    Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 18 July 2025
  • This car gets a full-width rear spoiler offering 44kg of downforce at 202 mph, a plethora of ‘S’ badging, bonnet blades, and underbody treatment, to allow for 111kg of downforce at vmax.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Mitchell was the most quietly elegant of men, dressed in a costume—a homburg, a knitted vest, a tweed jacket—that seemed unchanged since the thirties, and speaking in a soft but confident North Carolina accent.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Optimo stocks a variety of styles, including homburgs, porkpies, straw Panamas, and fedoras, the last of which is seen here.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The post-Shah state was a mishmash of neckties and turbans, with Bazargan as Prime Minister and Khomeini hovering somewhere above.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Yet the courts that uphold the rights of Sikhs to keep their long hair, beards and turbans while serving in the military and the right for parents to opt their kids out of certain classes or curriculum materials also rule against Native religious rights far more often than for them.
    Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • People started droping off costume accessories and dress-up requests — a sombrero for Cinco De Mayo, for example.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 30 May 2025
  • Many of the protesters had covered their faces and wore long sleeves; one wore a sombrero.
    Emily Witt, New Yorker, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Lastly, Gaines covers the bottom of her cloche with moss.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2025
  • Accessories like cloche hats, brooches, stoles and bold jewelry are also spotlighted in the photos.
    Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • In a race that includes a former governor and incumbent mayor with national reputations, a socialist frontrunner, and a combative former mayoral candidate toting a red beret, Walden’s relatively low-key temperament has seen his presence in the campaign diminished by his rivals.
    Menachem Spiegel, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Think crochet dresses, chiffon shawls in sorbet hues, berets, coiffed afros, mixed prints, Studio 54-esque jumpsuits, beaded braids à la Patrice Rushen, and men dressed like Barkley Hendricks paintings.
    Shelton Boyd-Griffith, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Nashville police said in a release 31-year-old Ashley Sells was the driver of a Dodge Charger that video evidence showed was performing doughnuts while Shannon Kilgore was laying on the hood.
    Ruben Montoya, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The top included a hood that draped down into a high neckline, while the floor-length skirt featured a sculptural roll of padding around the waistband, creating a flared look at her hips.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For Markle, the classic cream panama hat with a black ribbon fit the bill.
    Anna Millard, refinery29.com, 14 July 2018
  • Duchess Meghan, wearing a white blouse and panama hat, is spotted holding their three-month-old son, who donned a striped sweater and beige pants.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Aug. 2019

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“Leghorn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leghorn. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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