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Definition of Cornetcy
1. n. The commission or rank of a cornet.
Definition of Cornetcy
1. Noun. (military historical) The rank, rôle, or position of a cornet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cornetcy
1. a rank in the British cavalry [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornetcy
Literary usage of Cornetcy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on South African Affairs by William Binnington Boyce (1839)
"Magistrates of each Field-cornetcy ... and impose a rate for the support of such
a police force as the necessities of the Field-cornetcy might require ? ..."
2. The Life of George Brummell, Esq.: Commonly Called Beau Brummell by William Jesse (1844)
"... Oxford—His consumption of midnight oil there— Leaves the University—Is Gazetted
to a cornetcy in the Tenth—Introduced to the Prince of Wales—In ..."
3. Annual Report of the Geological Commission by George Steuart Corstorphine, Arthur William Rogers (1906)
"The Blink Klip Field cornetcy and the Groen Water Area. In this part of the
Division the Griqua Town beds occur as a wide anticline, which brings the ..."
4. Records of the Cape Colony from February 1793 [to: Copied for the Cape by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Great Britain Public Record Office (1905)
"Upon this His Excellency determined to place certain families nearly all Dutch,
and applications were made for grants of land in this Field cornetcy by ..."
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