Cornet (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Music 2 Military 3 Places 4 People 5 Other 6 See also

Cornet may refer to:

[edit] Music

• Cornet, a brass instrument that closely resembles the trumpet:
• A cornett or cornetto, a Renaissance brass instrument with woodwind-style holes,
• A cornet (organ) (pronounced "cornay"), a composite stop on an organ consisting of the 8', 4', 2-2/3', 2', and 1-3/5' stops

[edit] Military

• In military terminology, a troop of cavalry may also be called a cornet, from the now obselete term for the Troop's standard (flag).
• Cornet, the 16th and 17th Century term for the small square flag carried by each Troop of Horse. The term was progressively replaced during the 18th Century by "standard".
• Cornet (military rank), a commissioned officer rank in cavalry troops, once the bearer of the Troop's flag or Cornet.
• Cornet, cornette or cornute[1]
  • In maritime usage a term, now increasingly obsolete, a small triangular pennant or for a small, swallow-tailed flag, particularly a signal flag
  • An alternative form of ‘guidon’, now obsolete, as a cavalry regiment's distinguishing flag
• 9M133 Kornet, a Russian anti-tank guided missile

[edit] Places

• A number of villages in Romania:
  • Cornet in Brusturi Commune, Bihor County
  • Cornet in Poduri Commune, Bacău County
  • Cornet in Vaideeni Commune, Vâlcea County

[edit] People

• Alizé Cornet, female tennis player from France
• Peeter Cornet, Dutch composer of the early 17th century

[edit] Other

• A British English synonym for ice cream cone
• The main character in the Playstation video game Rhapsody:_A_Musical_Adventure
• A choco cornet is a kind of japanese bun shaped like a trumpet shell with chocolate filling
• A hoof marking for a horse.

[edit] See also

• Cornette, a kind of medieval headgear