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What is a sennet?

What is a sennet? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage
  2. The barracuda.
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Every description of mat, from the sennet to the thick pile mat worked in patterns, was made.
The words sennet and tucket were English manglings of the Italian terms sonata and toccata.
These seem to point to a derivation of the word from sonare, and thus the spelling ought to be sonnet, not sennet.
Of the various types of ceremonial trumpet signal, for example, sennet and tucket emerge with precise meanings, but flourish seems at times a more generalized term.
Matz mentions contributions on the postmodern time crisis by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, David Harvey, Antonio Negri, Richard Sennet, and James Gleick.
They have to stand like extras in a Mack Sennet silent movie and wonder why the gawping crowds laugh at the way they walk.

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