cornish
IPA: kˈɔrnɪʃ
Root Word: Cornish
noun
- (collectively) The inhabitants of Cornwall, especially native-born.
- The Celtic language of Cornwall, related to Welsh and Breton.
- The name of a town:
- A town in Maine.
- A town in New Hampshire.
- A town in Oklahoma.
- A town in Utah, at the border with Idaho.
- A habitational surname from Old English referring to someone from Cornwall.
- One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.
- (architecture) Alternative form of cornice [(architecture) A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.]
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Cornwall, a county of southwest England.
- Native to Cornwall.
- Of or pertaining to the Cornish language.
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Examples of "cornish" in Sentences
- Cornish music and language radio.
- Cornish continues to write and teach.
- And Cornish people are also unhappy with it.
- As such it supports the revival of the Cornish language.
- I have removed Cornish as there is no Cornish ethnic group.
- Many Cornish people feel themselves to be of the Cornish nation.
- Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language.
- Historically central to the Cornish diet was the idea of food thrift.
- Cornish are indigenous to Britain and the Cornish are a British ethnic group.
- The pasty is Cornish if the crimp is done at a 45 degree angle or on the side.
- For food, I enjoyed the cornish pasty at the British pub (Ye Olde King's Head) the most.
- Unfortunately, a roasted cornish game hen ($16) was dry; its bread salad, limp and soggy.
- Let us hope cornwall doesn, t go the same way as kosovo, because you know what? the cornish are a majority in Cornwall.
- Chris P.who at night “dreams of opening a cornish pasty food cart” shares his favorites of 2008, in the ongoing Employee Top 5 series
- There was a succulent chicken (a cornish hen) with deliciously cooked onions and portabella mushrooms swimming in the seasoned roasted chicken juices in the pan above.
- But my favorite form of outdoor cooking was my barrel smoker on which I made killer baby-back ribs, awesome pulled pork, luscious salmon, succulent cornish hens, and wonderful turkeys.
- I used up all my energy making cornish pasties some for tonight, some to eat tomorrow and Tuesday so I can do bunches and bunches of work, annotating a text and getting my emails down to under seventy must-be-answereds.
- Common fish include tiger fish Hydrocynus vittatus, bream Tilapia spp., vundu Heterobranchus longifilis, nkupi Distichodus mossambicus, chessa D. schenga, cornish jack Mormyropsanguilloides, and lungfish Protopterus annectens.