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ice-cream cone

[ ahys-kreem ]

noun

  1. a thin, crisp, hollow conical wafer for holding one or more scoops of ice cream.
  2. such a cone with the ice cream it contains.


ice-cream cone

noun

  1. a conical edible wafer for holding ice cream
  2. such a cone containing ice cream
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ice-cream cone1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Music blared from loudspeakers as kids from the River Heights Dance School tapped across the stage in ice-cream cone costumes.

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Lesa Hall, a Jamaican designer of luxury maternity clothes and former beauty queen, recently posted on Instagram an ice-cream cone — with a 24-karat-gold-leaf on top.

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The towel falls to the ground, and the ice-cream cone slides down my dress, my black velvet dress.

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So is her draped tunic and the hard, coifed cap that substitutes for soft hair, like an ice-cream cone dipped in chocolate.

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He once boarded the team bus with an ice-cream cone.

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