cornet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A brass musical instrument, slightly smaller than a trumpet and with a bright tone.

   He played the cornet in the town brass band.

2. 2
   noun

   A cone-shaped pastry shell filled with ice cream (British English).

   The children each got a cornet from the ice cream van.

From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).

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