Word Finder - cornet

definition

A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.

synonyms

• cornet-à-piston
• cornet-à-pistons

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A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.

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A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence an ice cream cone.

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A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

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A kind of organ stop.

On the 31st of May 1647 Cromwell had ordered Cornet Joyce to prevent the king's removal by the parliament or the Scots from Holmby, and Joyce by his own authority and with the king's consent brought him to Newmarket to the headquarters of the army.

Sechele was regarded by the Boers as owing them allegiance, and in August 1852 Pretorius sent against him a commando (in which Paul Kruger served as a field cornet), alleging that the Bakwena were harbouring a Bakatla chief who had looted cattle belonging to Boer farmers.

At the age of seventeen Paul found himself an assistant field cornet, at twenty he was field cornet, and at twenty-seven held a command in an expedition against the Bechuana chief Sechele - the expedition in which David Livingstone's mission-house was destroyed.

The incidents of the Venetian dispute from day to day are related in the contemporary diaries published by Enrico Cornet (Vienna, 1859).

Paul began playing the cornet aged 6 under the tuition of his father Robert in Dundee, Scotland.

At the age of 18, he also became principal cornet with the Royal Engineers TA Band in Monmouth.

The band tuned up relative to the principal cornet.

Playing took me as far away as Australia where I played solo cornet in the top brass band Hawthorn.

He has been the bands Principle cornet since 1999, winning best cornet at Bugle and Truro Contest.

In 1981, at the age of 10, I started playing for the senior band on 2nd cornet.

Well - known cornet player Richard Davies has joined our solo cornet player Richard Davies has joined our solo cornet section.

Well - known cornet player Richard Davies has joined our solo cornet section.

Back into the band comes Jonathan Hammond, previously our soprano cornet player, who now joins on the front row.

The bands principal cornet player was also awarded " Best Cornet " .

David Adams, former principle cornet, celebrated 50 years in brass banding in 1998.

The picture looks exactly like the ice cream at the top an ice cream cornet, to me.

Steve Drury is available to assist you on cornet or flugel horn.

One Sqn 7th hussars let about 25 Boers under Field Cornet Charlie?

The advertisements in fact put the solo oboe, clarinet or cornet players in big bold type.

The mutation produces a good solo timbre, a kind of cornet substitute.

First came the Imperial Cornet Band of Oz, dressed in emerald velvet uniforms with slashes of pea-green satin and buttons of immense cut emeralds.

The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov Guards with the rank of cornet.

The hussar cornet of Kutuzov's suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the carriage and rode up to Dolokhov.

Hussar cornet Zherkov had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to the wild set led by Dolokhov.

He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned and went out of the corridor.

He knew from experience the tormenting expectation of terror and death the cornet was suffering and knew that only time could help him.

A cornet, hearing the story, informed his commander.

John has played every instrument in the band apart from soprano cornet.

He will be replacing John Southcombe on tutti solo cornet who has had to leave the band due to work commitments.

The Cornet Peak ski resort is a 25 minute drive from Queenstown, New Zealand.

During his stay at the Northamptonshire village of Holdenby or Holmby - where Sir Thomas Herbert complains the green was not well kept - Charles frequently rode over to Lord Vaux's place at Harrowden, or to Lord Spencer's at Althorp, for a game, and, according to one account, was actually playing on the latter green when Cornet Joyce came to Holmby to remove him to other quarters.

Having chosen the army, he obtained through the interest of his friends a cornet's commission in the dragoons.