cornet

A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.

A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.

A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.

A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive them.

A kind of organ stop.

The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.

The standard flown by a cavalry troop.

The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).

No general would have sent a mere cornet in command of five hundred horse: Fairfax despatched a colonel to take charge as soon as he heard what had happened.

This cornet [translating Cornet] was a brave young cavalier and not more than two years older than me.