Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A player upon a cornet-à-pistons.

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  • noun A musician who plays the cornett

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Examples

  • Looking around at the crowded tables, the round-faced cornettist, leader of the orchestra, plunged into the opening spasm of a popular march.

    Diverse Tongues: A Sketch 1910

  • Looking around at the crowded tables, the round-faced cornettist, leader of the orchestra, plunged into the opening spasm of a popular march.

    Diverse Tongues: A Sketch 1910

  • I detailed Kelly Eyre to Quimperlé with orders for ten thousand crimson hand-bills; I sent McCadger, with Dawley, the bass-drummer, and Irwin, the cornettist, to plaster our posters from Pont Aven to

    The Maids of Paradise 1899

  • He has spent a guinea already to induce them to clean up their uniforms, and it cost him five pounds to bail the cornettist out of gaol for roost robbing.

    The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • He has spent five dollars paying the negroes to polish up their instruments and clean up the uniforms and it cost him twenty-five to bail the cornettist out of jail for roost robbing, and it takes a whole gallon of whisky to get any spirit into the drummer.

    The Melting of Molly Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • Future projects include biopics of Olympic athlete Jesse Owens and jazz cornettist Buddy Bolden.

    The Guardian World News Hermione Hoby 2011

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