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- noun Plural form of
cornet .
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Examples
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The kitchen sent out complimentary amuses-bouches at the start of the meal: warm gougères, or French cheese puffs, and "cornets" of salmon, crème fraîche and sesame tuile shaped to look like miniature ice cream cones.
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The slim plots and the faculty members with the exception of a guest appearance by Gwyneth Paltrow have been dropped, leaving only the pupils to prance around on a cruciform stage, singing familiar pop songs and waving their cordless mikes like ice-cream cornets.
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At the corners of the house the tin cornets of security lights dangle funnels of chubby moths and there's gospel music seeping from a cracked second-story window, manic sobs surging from somewhere deeper within.
The Last of Boland Kilean Kennedy 2011
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Prete's has been in the same family forever it seems; they still make their own retro ice-cream (strawberry, chocolate, banana, coffee), still serve it whipped, in cornets or in old-fashioned wafers (add clotted cream for an extra 90p).
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There are some new foods on the block: How about road kill to broaden your palate and save your wallet, bison meat for authentic "free-range" dining, or the new vegan cornets at the French Laundry?
Food52: Food Court: Kids Tackle Obesity, Foie Goes Cali, On the Menu at OWS Food52 2011
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• 2 Grennock Road (01475 675000, nardinis.co.uk) Robin Weir, co-author of Ice Creams, Sorbets and Gelati: the Definitive Guide (published by Grub Street, £25)Neatly suited, with a folded, gravy-brown tie, Bill Jackson has been serving Minghella's ice-cream cornets for the past 30 years from his 1960s ice-cream van at the top of Brading Down, which has panoramic views of the island .
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(Soundbite of song, "76 Trombones") Unidentified Man #2 (Singer): (Singing) Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun, 110 cornets right behind.
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They sucked illicit unhygienic candy from paper cornets and bought paper lanterns shaped like birds, butterflies, or a rabbit on wheels.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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They sucked illicit unhygienic candy from paper cornets and bought paper lanterns shaped like birds, butterflies, or a rabbit on wheels.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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(Soundbite of song, "76 Trombones") Unidentified Man #1 (Singer): (Singing) Seventy-six trombones led the big parade with 110 cornets close at hand.
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