Confeugo

Ligurian

FWOTD – 24 February 2013

2007 Confeugo in Rapallo, Italy.

Alternative forms

• Confêugo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuŋˈføɡu/

Proper noun

Confeugo m

1. A traditional Genoese event, occurring in the last Sunday before Christmas, in which the abbot and the political leaders of Genoa exchange greetings, and laurel logs and branches are burned in a public bonfire.
   • January–March 2011, Franco Bampi, Fâ de Cöse che no Costan Dinæ in A Compagna, Essegraph srl, page 1:

     Ecco chi sotta i mogogni do Confeugo che o Prescidente da Compagna, l’Abòu, o l’à fæto a-a Scindico de Zena, o Duxe, […]