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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Pacho Flores was the agile trumpeter, solid in tone throughout his range, brilliant on the cornet and mellow on the flugelhorn.
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Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 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
Calling it a trumpet concerto is perhaps a misnomer: the soloist probably spends more time on cornets or flugelhorn than on the trumpet.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
Many of the city’s most interesting artists are peppered through the record, from Ben Lamar Gay on cornet to Ayanna Woods and Sen Morimoto providing saxophone arrangements.
—Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
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Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 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
Calling it a trumpet concerto is perhaps a misnomer: the soloist probably spends more time on cornets or flugelhorn than on the trumpet.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
Many of the city’s most interesting artists are peppered through the record, from Ben Lamar Gay on cornet to Ayanna Woods and Sen Morimoto providing saxophone arrangements.
—Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
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Ramona Space Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden The psychedelic Mexican indie rock band Ramona, which includes a horn player, is at Space Ballroom on May 17 at 8 p.m. $32.34, $26.69 in advance.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 May 2025
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At that the rest of the herd formed a tight circle around him with heads lowered and horns pointing outward.—
Cyril E. Holland,
Outdoor Life,
8 May 2025
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The team is taking this tack because Perseverance is getting low on unsealed tubes and still has a lot of intriguing ground to cover.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
21 May 2025
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The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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“Cornet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornet. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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