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US
/kɔɹˈnɛt/
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[ UK /kˈɔːnɪt/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔːnɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
How To Use cornet In A Sentence
- This ecoregion forms the northern part of the subarid bioclimate zone of Cornet. Madagascar succulent woodlands
- A stream of people attest to the fact that it was Bolden's cornet that blasted out over those syncopated beats back in the 1900s that first defined jazz.
- Wednesday The hand percussionist and world-music hybridist Mr. Rudolph leads a long-running ensemble stocked with seasoned improvisers, like the oud player Brahim Fribgane, the cornetist NYT > Home Page
- Soon afterwards, he joined the local brass band, learning first the trombone, then the trumpet and cornet.
- In the second act Louis, one of the princely lackeys, brings a large cracknel and huge paper-cornet of sweets for Cornelia, whom he courts and whose favor he hopes in this way to win. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
- Cornet Bay ramp, North Whidbey Island -- May 1: 84 boats with 229 anglers caught 16 kelp greenling, 82 lingcod and seven cabezon. The Seattle Times
- Gravesham Borough Band is busy with its season of summer bandstand engagements but desperately needs a dedicated permanent conductor and cornet, trumpet and clarinet players.
- William F. Whelan was a cartographer and geodesist for the Army Map Service who played a mean, nay, a wild cornet. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
- And my dad was buying me a cornet, which is sort of like a trumpet. Oral History Interview with Arthur Griffin, May 7, 1999. Interview K-0168. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- Major Lawson was a fine cornet player, and finding the scale of the service bugle too restricted he obtained permission to add to it a valve attachment, which made the bugle a chromatic instrument like the cornet, in fact practically a saxhorn. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"