ice-cream cone
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- /ˈaɪsˌkrim koʊn/
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cono de helado
- Afterward, I treated myself to an ice cream cone: mint-chocolate chip with lots of chocolate sprinkles on top.
Examples
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Paul and Don, their hands full of ice cream cones, joked with the counter girl.
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They bought ice cream cones just like they had done the year they were married, the year she was pregnant with Mirinda, the year they had purchased the shore house.
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"We better resort to ice cream cones," she determines.
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"Say, let's go for an ice-cream cone and get away from this crowd.
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The manager of the factory, Mr. Ehrnstein, handed out miniature ice-cream cones and talked about being a good neighbor.
Fiction book (1998) -
He looks at their sugary mouths, their thin legs and arms, their ice-cream cones.
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Children laughed as they enjoyed their ice-cream cone on a hot summer day.
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After dinner, we decided to get an ice-cream cone at the local shop.
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He dropped his ice-cream cone on the ground, and it made a big mess.
Synonyms
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A baked cone-shaped wafer that holds ice cream
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Morphology
ice-cream + cone
The meaning 'a conical wafer holding ice cream' is directly and transparently derivable from 'ice-cream' (a frozen dessert) + 'cone' (a conical container/shape). This straightforward noun+noun compound has no idiomatic shift and follows common compounding patterns across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Ice-cream cone may come from sellers at old fairs who rolled warm waffles into a small cone so people could 'hold' and eat ice cream without a plate. That's why the phrase now means a thin, crispy, cone-shaped shell used to hold a scoop of ice cream.