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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cornet
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dan played the cornet in the school band.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At this time Bolden was developing his cornet playing.
▪ He wore a brown uniform and carried a cornet in shining yellow brass.
▪ In high school, he also learned to play the drums, piano and cornet.
▪ The industry has come a long way since the day's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cornet

Cornet \Cor"net\ (k?r"n?t), n. [F. cornet, m. (for senses 1 & 2), cornette, f. & m. (for senses 3 & 4), dim. of corne horn, L. cornu. See Horn.]

  1. (Mus.)

    1. An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.

    2. 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.

    3. A certain organ stop or register.

  2. A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
    --Cotgrave.

  3. (Mil.)

    1. A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. [Obs.] ``A body of five cornets of horse.''
      --Clarendon.

    2. The standard of such a troop. [Obs.]

    3. The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.

  4. A headdress:

    1. A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.

    2. A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.

  5. [Cf. Coronet.] (Far.) See Coronet, 2. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cornet

c.1400, "A wind instrument made of wood and provided with six finger holes" [Middle English Dictionary], from Old French cornet (14c.) "a small horn," diminutive of corn "a horn," from Latin cornu "horn" (see horn (n.)). Modern use is short for cornet-à-pistons "cornet with pistons."\n\nThe quality of the tone is penetrating and unsympathetic, by no means equal to that of the trumpet, for which it is commonly substituted.

["cornet" entry in "Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia," 1902]

Wiktionary
cornet

Etymology 1 n. 1 A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat. 2 A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container. 3 A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK) an ice cream cone. 4 (context obsolete English) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. 5 A kind of organ stop. Etymology 2

n. 1 The white headdress worn by the (w: Sisters of Charity). 2 (context obsolete English) The standard flown by a cavalry troop. 3 (context historical English) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the (term ensign English) in infantry).

WordNet
cornet

n. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: horn, trumpet, trump]

Wikipedia
Cornet

The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B, though there is also a soprano cornet in E. Both are unrelated to the renaissance and early baroque cornett.

Cornet (disambiguation)

A cornet is a brass instrument that closely resembles the trumpet. Cornet or Kornet may also refer to:

Cornet (rank)

Cornet was originally the third and lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, after captain and lieutenant.

It was abolished in the Cardwell Reforms of 1871, except in the Blues and Royals and Queen's Royal Hussars, where it is still used. It is equivalent to today's Second Lieutenant.

This rank was also used in other countries, e.g., in the Russian Empire.

Cornet (sculpture)

Cornet is an outdoor concrete and steel sculpture of a cornet by David Adickes, located in the Strand Historic District of Galveston, Texas, in the United States. Modeled after a cornet purchased at an antique shop in New Orleans, the by replica originally served as a stage prop at the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition. Adickes converted the prop into a freestanding sculpture for installation in Galveston in 1986.

Cornet (organ stop)

A Cornet, or Jeu de Tierce, is a compound organ stop, containing multiple ranks of pipes. The individual ranks are most commonly of principal or flute tone quality. In combination, the ranks create a bright tone suggesting the Renaissance brass instrument, the cornett.

The Cornet is primarily used as a solo voice and the ranks of the Cornet follow the harmonic series; 8', 4', 2 2/3', 2', 1 3/5'. The 8' rank is stopped while the other ranks are open. The Cornet may contain from two ranks and up, though three, four, and especially five ranks are the most commonly found.

The two-rank version has only the 2 2/3' and 1 3/5' ranks, but this combination is more commonly called a Sesquialtera. The three-rank version has the 2 2/3', 2', and 1 3/5' ranks; the four-rank version adds the 4' rank. Some Cornets may include more harmonics, such as the seventh (1 1/7') and in rare cases the Ninth (8/9').

Usage examples of "cornet".

I think that in England we are scarcely sufficiently conscious of the great debt we owe to the wise and watchful press which presides over the formation of our opinions, and which brings about this splendid result, namely, that in matters of belief the humblest of us are lifted up to the level of the most sagacious, so that really a simple cornet in the Blues is no more likely to entertain a foolish belief about ghosts or witchcraft, or any other supernatural topic, than the Lord High Chancellor or the Leader of the House of Commons.

Miss Sharp said her dear mother used often to play the same game with the old Count de Trictrac and the venerable Abbe du Cornet, and so found an excuse for this and other worldly amusements.

From this we learn that there was an orchestra containing fifes, bag-pipes, two cornets, some viols and lutes and a small organ.

He swung his sword arm high and caught the eyes of the buccinators, who raised their cornets to their lips.

And the ranks of harquebusiers kept up a slow but steady fire into the smoke until the prince had the cornets sound the ceasefire.

And cornets up and down the line began picking up the signal from the first cornet.

One of the earnest helpful friends was a skilled performer on the cornet, the Cabinet Ministers were able to clash cymbals more or less in tune, and the Chief Organiser has some knowledge of the drum.

Moreover there be divers, that to the intent to shew their grace and feature, wil cast off their partlets, collars, habiliments, fronts, cornets and krippins, and doe more delight to shew the fairnesse of their skinne, than to deck themselves up in gold and pretious stones.

The Campbellites had merely an overgrown cottage organ, but they put in a cornet to help out— this in the face of a protest from the conservative element that true religion did not harmonize with any "brass-band trimmings.

Or those red-curtained panes, Whence a tame cornet tenored it throatily Of beer-pots and spittoons and new long pipes, Might turn a caravansery's, wherein You found Noureddin Ali, loftily drunk, And that fair Persian, bathed in tears, You'd not have given away For all the diamonds in the Vale Perilous You had that dark and disleaved afternoon Escaped on a roc's claw, Disguised like Sindbad--but in Christmas beef!

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

Tim Trimm was playing a cornet, holding its bell out the front door of the pavilion while he kept his costumed self behind the canvas and invisible to passersby.

There were six or seven cornets, three tenor horns, two tubas, two trombones and two euphoniums, the sun glittering and flashing on their honey-colored tubes and stops.

He seemed to consist only of a large straw hat atop a heaving pile of laundry, with the cornet bell sticking out from between.

Other gangs, when they got new kameezes, sold the ragged bits of their old ones to a picker for a cornet of curried peas or some other luxury.