cornet

Meanings

1. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
2. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
3. A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
4. A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
5. A kind of organ stop.
6. A hollow horn-like growth.

1. The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
2. The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
3. The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).

Etymology

From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).