CORNET

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from diminutive of corn horn, from Latin cornu Date: 14th century a valved brass instrument resembling a trumpet in design and range but having a shorter partly conical tube and less brilliant tone, something shaped like a cone: as, a piece of paper twisted for use as a container, a cone-shaped pastry shell that is often filled with whipped cream, an ice-cream cone, ~ist or ~tist noun II. noun Etymology: Middle French ~te woman's headdress with a lappet, pennon, standard, from diminutive of corn Date: 1579 the standard of a cavalry troop, 2. the onetime fifth grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop who carried the standard, the onetime lowest commissioned rank in the United States cavalry