Alexandre Desplat

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.

French Composer

Claire Saffitz

Like turning potatoes or making a bearnaise sauce by hand, forming a cornet - essentially a DIY pastry bag - from parchment paper feels like one of those things culinary students do once or twice and then never again.

American Editor

Colin Salmon

I grew up on a council estate in Luton, and as a child, I was very much into the brass-band tradition. I was basically a Salvation Army boy. My English granddad bought me a cornet when I was five years old.

British Actor

Bill Bryson

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

American Writer

Often used when talking about orchestras or bands, especially in descriptions of their members or the sounds they produce.

Musical Context

Although similar, the cornet and trumpet have distinct sounds, so don't use the terms as if they're the same.

Not Interchangeable

Refers specifically to the edible container for ice cream, not the ice cream itself.

Dessert Item

Imagine the shape! Cornets are cone-shaped, helping you to remember that it’s a type of ice cream cone.

Visual Cue

Also used to describe antique or period-style jewelry, rather than modern pieces.

Antique Reference

A historical military term; you're unlikely to use it in contemporary contexts, except when discussing history.

Historical Military

Specific to the British cavalry in historical or reenactment contexts, not other countries' armed forces.

British Cavalry

 of the theory of punctuated equilibrium. But as a sideline, he happens to collect cornets. He has one of the world's largest collections -- about 500 of them. And he has decided to treat them as if they were trilobites, or snails, and to do a morphological analysis,

Kevin Kelly: How...

 finally get the third sack yes oh wow so now pressures on me love that cornet bag that one's been up a surprise didn't not