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plural cornets
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat. examples
A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container. examples
(UK, dated) an ice cream cone. examples
(obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. quotations
They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive them.
1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707
A kind of organ stop. examples
The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity. examples
(obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
(historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry). quotations
No general would have sent a mere cornet in command of five hundred horse: Fairfax despatched a colonel to take charge as soon as he heard what had happened.
1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 45
This cornet [translating Cornet] was a brave young cavalier and not more than two years older than me.
1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.14, Dedalus 2016, p. 253