noun
cornet
A cone-shaped paper container for food.
The vendor filled a paper cornet with roasted nuts.
Etymology
French cornet means a small horn. Paper twisted into a tapering cone resembles that shape, giving the food container its horn-based name.
More examples
- She carried the sweets in a small cornet.
- A folded cornet held the fried snacks.
- He rolled the paper into a cornet for the food.
Forms
cornet · cornets
Similar words
- cone
- Cone names the shape generally; cornet here is a cone-shaped paper food container.
- wrapper
- A wrapper encloses food; a cornet holds it in an open cone.