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  • noun Plural form of cornet.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Thomas Keller Goes à la Carte 2009

  • 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.

    Glee: The 3D Concert Movie – review 2011

  • 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

  • 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).

    Plymouth's 10 best budget restaurants and cafes 2011

  • 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

  • • 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 .

    Ten of the best UK ice-cream sellers 2011

  • (Soundbite of song, "76 Trombones") Unidentified Man #2 (Singer): (Singing) Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun, 110 cornets right behind.

    Dan Zanes: Broadway For The Smaller Set 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • (Soundbite of song, "76 Trombones") Unidentified Man #1 (Singer): (Singing) Seventy-six trombones led the big parade with 110 cornets close at hand.

    Dan Zanes: Broadway For The Smaller Set 2010

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