confetto
See also: confettò
English edit
Etymology edit
Italian confetto. Doublet of comfit, 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