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Meanings of cornet in English

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Horn-shaped pastry.

        Portuguese
        trompa
        Catalan
        trompeta
        Spanish
        corneta

        A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves.

              trompa
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              Russian
              корнет
              Catalan
              cornet

              Military rank.

                      Related terms
                      корнет

                      Compound organ stop.

                            Usage of cornet in English
                            1
                            It was a night of anxiety in the kraal of the field-cornet.
                            The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
                            2
                            The cornet had two miles to swim, which he accomplished with difficulty.
                            Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands
                            3
                            Dutch jazz cornet player touring the country with local ensemble Melancholy Babes.
                            Radio NZ
                            4
                            Their veins beat time to the whinny of the derby wreathed cornet.
                            A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
                            5
                            The Tuscarora cornet band favored this session with music between the speeches.
                            Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, a...
                            6
                            He bought a cornet from a pawn shop and began taking lessons.
                            Reuters
                            7
                            Our field-cornet had a proof of this as he watched the chase.
                            The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
                            8
                            The field-cornet, seated upon one of the wagon-chests, smoked his great pipe.
                            The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
                            9
                            Saul Lapham, a friend of his, plays the cornet at the choir-rehearsals.
                            Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
                            10
                            He was musical, playing the cornet and having an unusual tenor voice.
                            The Recent Revolution in Organ Building / Being an Account of Mo...
                            11
                            The instruments used are a piano, organ, violin, cornet and bass viol.
                            The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
                            12
                            My field-cornet, however, was sufficiently sensible and loyal to send no reply.
                            My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
                            13
                            He got a whole cornet too, from the man who sold it.
                            Dogsbody
                            14
                            Also plays the cornet with right hand, & conducts with left.
                            The new yorker
                            15
                            A new hope sprang up in the heart of the field-cornet.
                            The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
                            16
                            That is how Swartboy came to be in the service of the field-cornet.
                            The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his F...
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                            Translations for cornet
                            Spanish
                            corneta
                            Cornet through the time
                            Cornet across language varieties
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