Crone vs Cornet - What's the difference?
crone | cornet |
(obsolete) An old woman.
* Dryden
An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
(obsolete) An old ewe.
(obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
* Beaconsfield
* Washington Irving
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK) an ice cream cone.
(obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
* Clarendon
A kind of organ stop.
The white headdress worn by the (Sisters of Charity).
(obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
(historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
As nouns the difference between crone and cornet
is that crone is (wicca) one of the triune goddesses of the lady in wicca alongside the mother and maiden and representing an old woman while cornet is a musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of b-flat or cornet can be the white headdress worn by the (sisters of charity).crone
English
Noun
(en noun)- But still the crone was constant to her note.
- (Tusser)
- A few old battered crones of office.
- The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel which his master had given him.
Synonyms
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* *cornet
English
(wikipedia cornet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) cornet, diminutive of a popular reflex of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- A body of five cornets of horse.
