Cornish

Examples

• All

• This was a Cornish phrase, and he asked where she had heard it.

  Fiction book (1994)

• If his chest was not hurting, Lawrence found the Cornish men and women gentle and innocent; if he was in pain, he wrote of their greed and insularity.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I am the fourth son of a Cornish Chieftain.

  Arthur & Merlin (2015)

• And the Cornish miners, you know, went from being extremely wealthy to being not that wealthy.

  andrew gold | heretics.

• OK, are you familiar with the M&S cheddar brand, Cornish Cruncher?

• I served my Cornish pasties at the potluck, thinking my coworkers would be delighted at this unique little meat pie.

  Blog text (10)

• Murdoch explores the medieval literary tradition of Cornish literature, placing it in a literary context that includes its British, Celtic, and European historical counterparts.

  Academic text (1993)

• Cornish pasty is usually a meat filled pasty puff pastry and I think it was invented by Cornish miners or builders.

• She'd made a formal dinner in the middle of the week—Cornish hens stuffed with herbs and rice.

  Fiction book (1995)

• I enjoyed learning about the traditional Cornish customs celebrated during the summer festival.

Compounds

C

Cornish pasty

1 5.7

A baked pastry from Cornwall filled with meat and vegetables, folded and pressed on one side

C

Cornish fowl

7.0

A small heavy English chicken often crossed with other chickens to make meat birds

C

Cornish heath

9.9

A small bush with pink or white flowers that grows on moors in Cornwall and southwest Europe

C

Cornish heritage

7.9

Traditions, culture, and family history from Cornwall and its people

C

Cornish language

9.7

A language from Cornwall that people spoke long ago and are learning again

R

Rock Cornish

• US

6.7

A small plump chicken that people raise for meat

R

Rock Cornish hen

• US

6.9

A small young chicken raised for eating, often roasted

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology