Definition of "cornopean" []

• Cornet-à-piston (noun)

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• "Five or six small boys, with pea-shooters, and the cornopean player, got up behind; in front the big boys, mostly smoking, not for pleasure, but because they are now gentlemen at large, and this is the most correct public method of notifying the fact."
• "Every minute the bustle and hubbub increased: porters staggered about with boxes and bags, the cornopean played louder."
• "One way or another, the party to which Tom belonged all got packed and paid, and sallied out to the gates, the cornopean playing frantically "Drops of Brandy," in allusion, probably, to the slight potations in which the musician and postboys had been already indulging."