Online Texts for Craig White's Literature Courses

Illustrations for Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Town Poor"

Leghorn Hat

OED: leghorn = "straw plaiting for hats and bonnets, made from a particular kind of wheat, . . . bleached, and . . . imported from Leghorn [Ligorno] in Tuscany; a hat made of this plaiting or some imitation

William McGregor Paxton, “The Leghorn Hat”.