cornetcy
Britishnoun
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Rostov, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought Denisov's horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and the sutlers.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
The king has appointed him to a cornetcy in the 3rd Royal Dragoon Guards, but he is going to be one of my aides-de-camp.
From With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Luckily, they found me out before the ship sailed, and made the best of a bad bargain by purchasing me a cornetcy in a dragoon regiment.
From In the Days of My Youth by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
I have already applied to the Horse Guards on your behalf, and have the refusal of a cornetcy in the Light Dragoons.
From Vellenaux A Novel by E. W. (Edmund William) Forrest
In 1794 he was gazetted to a cornetcy in the Tenth Hussars, the gift of its colonel the Prince of Wales.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
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