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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Whistles, horns or other noise makers.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Dodgers and Brewers, starting on Monday, will lock horns for up to seven games, with one team emerging as the National League representative in the World Series.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Holloway Road tube relies on a couple of old elevators to get up and down from the platform and the entrance is on a major road, so there is no obvious place for passengers to queue outside.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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For instance, Eucrisa, a drug prescribed to approximately a million American patients with eczema at almost $1,000 a tube, will be offered to Americans at an 80 percent discount—bringing the price under $200.—
Bobby Jindal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Cornet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornet. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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