Synonyms:
Cornish
Meaning: of or related to Cornwall or its people or the Cornish language
Usage examples
Mrs. Max and Cornish and I shall be honored.'
'Well, how did Cornish behave on your way back?'
I drove Cornish this morning; he got by everything on the way.
The Cornish royalists, therefore, bethought themselves of levying a force which might be more serviceable.
The fight continued with doubtful success, till word was brought to the chief officers of the Cornish, that their ammunition was spent to less than four barrels of powder.
The king, freed from this enemy, sent his army westward under Prince Rupert; and, by their conjunction with the Cornish troops, a formidable force, for numbers as well as reputation and valor, was composed.
On his father's side were the Grenvilles, who made good account of themselves in such cause as they approved, among them Basil Grenville, commander of the Royalist Cornish Army, killed at Lansdown in 1643 in defence of King Charles.
Notwithstanding these advantages, the extreme want both of money and ammunition under which the Cornish royalists labored, obliged them to enter into a convention of neutrality with the parliamentary party in Devonshire; and this neutrality held all the winter season.