Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The commission or rank of a cornet. See
cornet , 7 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The commission or rank of a cornet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military, historical The rank, rôle, or position of a
cornet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our worthy acquaintance Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied with a friend whom he had just rencountered, a young gentleman, his name Alec Bannon, who had late come to town, it being his intention to buy a colour or a cornetcy in the fencibles and list for the wars.
Ulysses 2003
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He was gazetted to a cornetcy; and entered life at an age when, if the manlier traits are ready to be developed, the worthless ones are equally sure to unfold themselves.
A Love Story A Bushman
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Her three nieces had court places, one of them that of a maid of honour; one brother obtained a cornetcy in the Horse Guards; another a chief clerkship in the annuity office; and her nephew was sent out with Lord
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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In 1794 he was gazetted to a cornetcy in the Tenth Hussars, the gift of its colonel the Prince of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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So they bought Mr. Ferdinand Fitzroy a cornetcy in the ---- regiment of dragoons.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) Various
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I have already applied to the Horse Guards on your behalf, and have the refusal of a cornetcy in the Light Dragoons.
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-- Having no dependence but on the promises of government to indemnify those who had suffered on that account he, after years of distress and difficulty, obtained a cornetcy in the
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Our worthy acquaintance Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied with a friend whom he had just rencountered, a young gentleman, his name Alec Bannon, who had late come to town, it being his intention to buy a colour or a cornetcy in the fencibles and list for the wars.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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But my college career convinced my uncle that my forte did not lie in the classics, and Sir George succeeded in inducing him to yield to my wishes, and interested himself so strongly for me that I obtained a cornetcy in the 14th Light Dragoons a week before the regiment sailed for Portugal.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
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He reached home to find that his mother, who believed in keeping young men employed, had procured him a cornetcy in
Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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