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confetti, n. pl.|kənˈfɛtɪ|
[Italian confetti, pl. of confetto comfit.]
Bon-bons, or plaster or paper imitations of these, thrown during carnival in Italy; in U.K., U.S., etc., esp. little discs, etc., of coloured paper thrown at the bride and bridegroom at weddings.
1815John Mayne Jrnl. 5 Feb. (1909) 275 A principal part of the amusement of a masking day consists in throwing confetti; these are little balls, the size of a small marble, made of some soft white plaister that makes a mark wherever it strikes. 1846Dickens Pictures from Italy 178 The spectators..would empty down great bags of confetti, that descended like a cloud, and..made them as white as millers. 1883J. Brinsley-Richards 7 Yrs. at Eton i. 5 The confetti which are flung from the balconies of Roman houses at Carnival time. 1895Daily News 27 Feb. 5/4 People young and old carry bags full of these confetti and fling them by handfuls in each other's faces and stuff them down their necks. Ibid. 26 Apr. 3/2 Visitors to the Riviera..were assured..that the confetti to be used at Eastbourne would be the small parti⁓coloured paper discs which are known in France, and which are taking the place of the time-honoured rice at English wedding festivities. 1897Ibid. 3 Mar. 7/3 A real shower of rain put a stop to confetti-flinging. 1906Westm. Gaz. 7 Nov. 7/1 A wild carnival of confetti-throwing and other forms of horseplay. 1918E. Sitwell Clown's Houses 26 Like coloured dust Or feverish confetti. 1948Oxf. Jun. Encycl. I. 298/2 Our custom of throwing confetti at weddings is a recent change from the older practice of casting rice.
b. transf. and fig.
1924R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin ii. 23 The trees..sprayed their flustered birds into the skies, That plumed confetti, soaring far and frail. 1940C. Day Lewis Poems in Wartime 7 Litter of rubble, stale Confetti sprinkle of blood. 1941New Statesman 30 Aug. 218/3 Confetti, ammunition. |