confetto
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See also: confettò
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian confetto. Doublet of comfit, confect, confit, and konfyt.
Noun[edit]
confetto (plural confetti)
- (rare) A single piece of confetti; singular of confetti.
- 1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volume 181, page 260:
- I cast a confetto or two at the happy pair.
- 1993, Outerbridge, page 49:
- She fluttered her hand at a confetto of cigarette ash, knocking it from her black soft sweater to the thigh of her black jeans where it lay unmolested.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:confetto.
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
confetto m (plural confetti)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
confetto
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