英语词汇leghorns的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	leghorns
词源	leghorns. These prolific egg layers are a breed of chickens originally bred in Livorno, Italy, which the English, never good at pronouncing foreign words, called Leghorn. Highly regarded straw hats called leghorns are also made in Livorno.
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