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    [Noun]  | "cor*net" | \ kȯr-ˈnet \


    1: a valved brass instrument resembling a trumpet in design and range but having a shorter partly conical tube and less brilliant tone

    2: something shaped like a cone: such as

    3: a piece of paper twisted for use as a container


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English cornet, cornette "six-holed wooden wind instrument" (now usually cornett or cornetto), borrowed from Middle French cornet, from corn "horn" (going back to Old French, going back to Latin cornum, cornū) + -et {see: |-et:1|-et:1} {mat|horn|};

    [Noun]  | "cornet" 


    1: the standard of a cavalry troop

    2: the onetime fifth grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop who carried the standard

    3: the onetime lowest commissioned rank in the U.S. cavalry


    Origin: 1579 ;

     Borrowed from Middle French cornette "lappet terminating a woman's headdress, pennon, standard of a troop, officer holding the standard," from corne "horn, wimple with horn-like appendages," going back to Latin cornua, plural (taken as singular) of cornū "horn" {mat|horn|};

    [Noun]  | "cornet" 


    1: something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container;


      * e.g., " ... cornets of pastry dough that were baked and later filled with cream "



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