Definition of "cornetcy" []

• The rank, rôle, or position of a cornet. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "I have already applied to the Horse Guards on your behalf, and have the refusal of a cornetcy in the Light Dragoons."