cornet
noun/ˈkɔːnɪt/
/ˈkɔːrnɪt/
- a brass musical instrument like a small trumpetTopics Musicc2
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- (British English, old-fashioned) a cone (= a piece of thin dry biscuit like a cone in shape that you can put ice cream in to eat it)
- an ice-cream cornet
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting a wind instrument made of a horn): from Old French, diminutive of a variant of Latin cornu ‘horn’.
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