cornet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
2. isim A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
3. isim A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
4. isim A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

   “They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive them.”

5. isim A kind of organ stop.
6. isim A hollow horn-like growth.
7. isim The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
8. isim The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
9. isim The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).

   “No general would have sent a mere cornet in command of five hundred horse: Fairfax despatched a colonel to take charge as soon as he heard what had happened.”