English
confetti
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /kənˈfɛti/
Noun

confetti (uncountable)

  1. Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.
  2. (rare) Edible Italian sugar-coated almonds, especially those which are used as part of a traditional Italian wedding.
    • 1870, Henry T. Tuckerman, in the Boston Transcript, quoted in The New York Observer Yearbook and Almanac, page 143:
      [...] a pale and fair devotee of fashion who has left off eating confetti, and recovered her bloom.
    • 1959, Loren Wahl, Lorenzo Madalena, Confetti for Gino:
      "Why, if you and Teresa, our own best man and maid of honor . . . oh, how wonderful that would be, to eat confetti at your wedding!"
    • 1975, Garibaldi Marto Lapolla, The grand Gennaro, Ayer Co. Pub.:
      Emilio and Roberto had pooled their resources in money and had arranged with the cafe keeper for steaming thick chocolate, a slow-pouring syrup-like drink, the richest boccotoni, cream-filled heavy sfogliate, and almond confetti.
    • 1986, Anne Paolucci, Sepia tones: seven short stories, Council on Natl Literature (ISBN 9780918680327):
      There were large trays with assorted pastries and colored almond confetti for a wedding, and he remembered with a pang that this very day was the wedding anniversary, the day Pino and Maria had married (so long ago!) in Rome.
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