CORNET
\kˈɔːnɪt], \kˈɔːnɪt], \k_ˈɔː_n_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of CORNET
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
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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.
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A certain organ stop or register.
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A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
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A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
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The standard of such a troop.
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The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.
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A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
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A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
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See Coronet, 2.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A little horn: a horn-shaped trumpet: formerly a body of cavalry accompanied by a cornet player: formerly, the lowest rank of commissioned officers in the British cavalry, corresponding to the present sublieutenant.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald