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cornetto

Noun

Meaning

(music) A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.

An Italian pastry, a kind of croissant.

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Alessandro Scarlatti used the cornetto or pairs of cornetts in a number of his operas. Source: Internet

The cornett was also used as a virtuoso solo instrument, and a relatively large amount of solo music for the cornetto (and/or violin) survives. Source: Internet

Take the Cornetto, which combines Vanilla ice cream with chocolate coating and hazelnut pieces in a wafer cone. Source: Internet

While not musically related, instruments of the Zink family (which includes serpents ) are named "cornetto", with a tonal or pitch related Latin word following the hyphen to describe the particular variant. Source: Internet

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