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Cornetto

//kɔːˈnɛtəʊ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
  2. 2
    An Italian pastry, a kind of croissant.

    "Frock-coated waiters flitted in and out dispensing champagne cocktails, stripy-jumpered gondoliers were handing out cornettos and bite-size pizzas, courtesy of the high street pizza chain that was sponsoring the whole bash,[…]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cornetto, a diminutive of corno (“horn”), from Latin cornū.

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