as in horn
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container
cornets of pastry dough that were baked and later filled with cream
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In the late-aughts, at the restaurant French Laundry, in Yountville, California, Lena Kwak was tasked with finding a gluten-free alternative to the restaurant's iconic salmon cornets—small, crunchy wafer cones filled with salmon tartare to signal the beginning of the meal.
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Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
Soloist Pacho Flores strode on stage in front of the San Diego Symphony, perilously carrying two trumpets and a cornet.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
Was having the cornet player there that night in Philly unusual?
—Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
Bands in the 19th century had a wide range of formats and instrumentation, but all-brass ensembles were very common and often known as cornet bands.
—Catherine Baty, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
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Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
Soloist Pacho Flores strode on stage in front of the San Diego Symphony, perilously carrying two trumpets and a cornet.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
Was having the cornet player there that night in Philly unusual?
—Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
Bands in the 19th century had a wide range of formats and instrumentation, but all-brass ensembles were very common and often known as cornet bands.
—Catherine Baty, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cornet
Noun
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The entire group quickly fled once a car horn blared outside.—
Pilar Arias,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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When the logs were open, officials discovered five pieces of rhino horn hidden inside, according to the post.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The loitering munition systems empowers the warfighter with quick and easy deployment via tube-launch, and the capability to fly, track and engage non-line-of-sight targets and armored vehicles with precision lethal effects without the need for external ISR or fires assets.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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Some include the Madrid train bombings, where 193 died in 2004, the 2005 London tube bombings with 56 dead, and an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester where 23 were killed in 2017.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Cornet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornet. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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