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Leghorn (iou) and leal (iou)


Leghorn (iou)



Leghorn adjective & noun. Esp. in sense 1 also leghorn. M18.
[Anglicized from Italian Legorno, now Livorno (repr. Latin Liburnus), a port in Tuscany, western Italy.]
(Designating) a fine straw plaiting of a kind originally imported from Livorno; (designating) a hat made from such plaiting. M18.
(A bird of) a breed of small hardy domestic fowl. M19.

leal (iou)



leal adjective & adverb. [li:l] Now Scot. & north. or literary. ME.
[Anglo-Norman leal, Old French leel: see LOYAL.]
A. adjective.
Loyal, faithful, honest. ME.
R. Graves Now you vow to be leal and true.
True, genuine; real, actual; exact, accurate. ME.
J. Louthian The said Witnesses to bear leal and soothfast Witnessing.
Lawful; just, fair. LME.
Comb.: leal-hearted adjective loyal, faithful, honest.
b. adverb.
Loyally, faithfully. ME.
Truly, exactly, accurately; perfectly, thoroughly. LME.
leally adverb loyally, faithfully, truly ME.
lealty noun (arch.) faithfulness, loyalty M19.