cornopean

• Somebody had a French horn or cornopean, and at its sound people came trotting pretty quickly in from all directions through the woodland glades and up the avenues leading from the ruins, or bypaths coming from the side of the stream. —  Ernest Bracebridge School Days
• Various instruments, bassoon, trombone, violoncello, cornet, cornopean, and clarionet, flute, fiddle, and flageolet, or some of their number, were employed, calling to mind the band of Nebuchadnezzar of old. —  The Parish Clerk
• To see old Nicky, of all men, standin' there before my very eyes an' sheddin' gold like a cornopean What Mr Latter did at the moment, or as soon as he recovered his presence of mind, was to set down his bottle and dive under the counter; while Nicky-Nan chased the coin which had ricochetted off the spittoon and lodged against the wainscot. —  Nicky-Nan, Reservist
• "Now, boys, half a sovereign apiece if you beat 'em into Dunchurch by one hundred yards All right, sir," shouted the grinning postboys Down comes Robinson's coach in a minute or two, with a rival cornopean, and away go the two vehicles, horses galloping, boys cheering, horns playing loud. —  Tom Brown's School Days
• Just then a noise of wheels, accompanied by a merry tune on a cornopean, came in from the street. —  Tom Brown at Oxford

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