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Cornet   /kɔrnˈɛt/   Listen
noun
Cornet  n.  
1.
(Mus.)
(a)
An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
(b)
A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.
(c)
A certain organ stop or register.
2.
A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
3.
(Mil.)
(a)
A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. (Obs.) "A body of five cornets of horse."
(b)
The standard of such a troop. (Obs.)
(c)
The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.
4.
A headdress:
(a)
A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
(b)
A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
5.
(Far.) See Coronet, 2.





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"Cornet" Quotes from Famous Books



... take place. Many new musical instruments had been invented since the time of David, and the Jews of the captivity had seen and used these in Babylon and Shushan. We read, in the Book of Daniel, of the cornet, the flute, the sackbut, the dulcimer; all these instruments were familiar to the Jews of Nehemiah's day. But we do not find one of these newly invented instruments in use at this grand service. They cling to ...
— The King's Cup-Bearer • Amy Catherine Walton
... treading the light, fantastic German by themselves. It would seem, said the Baroness Contaletto, like a burlesque of merriment; and so the dance fell through. A service of song, a tea-drum, a cream-cornet, and a pound-party met the same fate; and finally all minds gently but firmly centred upon a dinner-party; and so it ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various
... timed to begin at nine, but at twenty minutes past the hour newsvendors were still going to and fro with bundles of evening papers, and the orchestra was represented by a melancholy bald-headed man with a cornet. The other musicians came in leisurely, one by one, and at last the conductor took his place and the audience settled down and was comparatively quiet while the Royal March was being played. The orchestra ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton
... much baggage and some of the boys come without even their tooth brush but they hadn't some of them forgot to fetch a qt. bottle and by the time we got outside of the city limits the engineer didn't have to blow his whistle to leave people know we were comeing. Somebody had a cornet and another fellow had a trombone and a couple of them had mouth organs and we all sung along with them and we sung patriotic songs like Jonah Vark and Over There and when they started on the Star Spangled Banner the guy I was setting along ...
— Treat 'em Rough - Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer • Ring W. Lardner
... I am coward," cried Olivain, "because he wanted the other day to fight a cornet in Grammont's regiment and ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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