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cornets

noun

plural of cornet

as in horns

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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Recent Examples of cornets Nevertheless, Gadson’s father, Harold, bought him and his brother, Thomas, cornets to play in their school’s drum and bugle corps, Gadson recalled in author Jim Payne’s The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk & Soul. —

Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026 While recovering from cancer, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind instruments, particularly Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets. —

IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025

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Noun

This year, graduate workers who are on strike picketed in Harvard Yard, blaring vuvuzela horns, drums and cowbells whenever an administrator spoke.

— Michael Casey, Fortune, 29 May 2026
And a brewery owner said the train horns are so loud now that all conversation stops in the brewery when the trains go by.

— Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2026