Cornish

//ˈkɔːɹnɪʃ//

"Cornish" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Welsh, Cornish and Breton are all closely related.

Cornish, Welsh and Breton are Celtic languages.

Cornish is similar to Welsh, and is closer still to Breton, a language which derives from that of the ancient Britons who, during the early Middle Ages, migrated across to today's Brittany on the French mainland.

She was sitting on the sea wall, happily chomping away at her Cornish pasty, when he came sidling up to her.

Cornwall is called "Kernow" in Cornish.

Cornish cows create crumbly cowpats.

Cornish is a disappointing language in respect of swearwords, for it is by no means rich in those “ornaments to conversation.”

There is a movement to revive Cornish.

So the curve of Stonehenge, which is above 100 English feet, appears extraordinary large and well proportion'd, upon a height of 18 foot, which reaches to the top of the outer cornish; that of the inner cornishes is but 24 foot high, at a medium. For the cornishes of the inner part of Stonehenge, or that which Webb calls the cell, are not all of equal height, of which in proper place.

The four rooms in the length of this building have door places crown'd with double cornishes, as represented in the plate of that architecture, together with ornaments of the winged globe.

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And all the way along the edges here we'll be putting in cornishes. They're under the scaffolding there in the corner, you can take a look. These are six-inch cornishes.

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