Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - cornet
Cornet
cornet
1. n. 1 Mus. a a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but shorter and wider. b its player. c an organ stop with the quality of a cornet. d a cornetto. 2 Brit. a conical wafer for holding ice-cream. Derivatives cornetist n. cornettist n. Etymology: ME f. OF ult. f. L cornu horn 2. n. Brit. hist. the fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours. Derivatives cornetcy n. (pl. -ies). Etymology: earlier sense 'pennon, standard' f. F cornette dimin. of corne ult. f. L cornua horns
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from diminutive of corn horn, from Latin cornu Date: 14th century a valved brass instrument resembling a trumpet in design and range but having a shorter partly conical tube and less brilliant tone, something shaped like a cone: as, a piece of paper twisted for use as a container, a cone-shaped pastry shell that is often filled with whipped cream, an ice-cream cone, ~ist or ~tist noun II. noun Etymology: Middle French ~te woman's headdress with a lappet, pennon, standard, from diminutive of corn Date: 1579 the standard of a cavalry troop, 2. the onetime fifth grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop who carried the standard, the onetime lowest commissioned rank in the United States cavalry ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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