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Definition of confetti in English: confettinoun kənˈfɛtikənˈfɛdi mass nounSmall pieces of coloured paper traditionally thrown over a bride and bridegroom by their wedding guests after the marriage ceremony has taken place. Example sentencesExamples - Arrange a thin layer of sequins, glitter, and confetti on the adhesive paper.
- Children run about flinging fistfuls of fallen blossoms over everyone like wedding confetti.
- Prior to being paper, confetti was originally a mix of rose petals, rice and grain.
- Suddenly rose petals and paper confetti came raining down on them from the ceiling.
- One typical wedding custom is to throw confetti over the couple as they come from the church.
- Everyone cheered, whistled and threw confetti as my parents walked back down the aisle, holding hands and beaming.
- Features were thrown at us like confetti at a western wedding.
- These individuals threw around weedkiller and detergent like confetti.
- They were full of confetti to throw at the bride and groom after the ceremony.
- Names were thrown about as contenders like confetti at a wedding.
- I took the flimsy song words on paper and ripped them up, till coloured confetti showered on my legs and hands.
- Children ran down the streets, throwing confetti and screaming at the top of their lungs, dragging toy trains and teddy bears behind them.
- Then again, this is a man who attracts insults like a bride attracts confetti on her wedding day.
- Each building was decorated with banners, flowers, coloured ribbons and confetti.
- Throwing confetti during the wedding scene was a pure delight.
- She looked at the donut box, decorated with pictures of confetti, and sighed.
- We didn't have any wedding cake or confetti but it was still the happiest moment of my life.
- Only later, when she was on the expressway, would she make confetti of the lab paper and toss it out the window.
- Others keep confetti and other small decorative items on hand to make a table look special.
- Ideally, use a shredder with a cross-cut action, as these turn paper into tiny pieces of confetti.
Origin Early 19th century (originally denoting the real or imitation sweets thrown during Italian carnivals): from Italian, literally 'sweets', from Latin confectum 'something prepared', neuter past participle of conficere 'put together' (see confect). It was the custom during Italian carnivals and public celebrations for people to throw little sweets, known as confetti. The Italian word comes from Latin confectum ‘something prepared’. As time went on people threw small plaster balls instead of sweets, which were meant to break open in a cloud of white dust when they hit someone. Charles Dickens describes the custom in 1846: ‘The spectators…would empty down great bags of confetti, that descended like a cloud, and…made them as white as millers.’ By the end of the 19th century English had borrowed the Italian word to refer to the coloured paper shapes that wedding guests shower on the bride and bridegroom after the marriage ceremony. A related word is confectionery (late 17th century), both words being traceable back to Latin conficere ‘put together’.
Rhymes amaretti, amoretti, Betti, Betty, cornetti, Donizetti, Getty, Giacometti, Hettie, jetty, machete, Marinetti, Nettie, petit, petty, Rossetti, Serengeti, spaghetti, sweaty, vaporetti, yeti Definition of confetti in US English: confettinounkənˈfɛdikənˈfedē Small pieces of colored paper thrown during a celebration such as a wedding. Example sentencesExamples - One typical wedding custom is to throw confetti over the couple as they come from the church.
- Only later, when she was on the expressway, would she make confetti of the lab paper and toss it out the window.
- Arrange a thin layer of sequins, glitter, and confetti on the adhesive paper.
- Features were thrown at us like confetti at a western wedding.
- Throwing confetti during the wedding scene was a pure delight.
- Names were thrown about as contenders like confetti at a wedding.
- These individuals threw around weedkiller and detergent like confetti.
- She looked at the donut box, decorated with pictures of confetti, and sighed.
- Then again, this is a man who attracts insults like a bride attracts confetti on her wedding day.
- They were full of confetti to throw at the bride and groom after the ceremony.
- Everyone cheered, whistled and threw confetti as my parents walked back down the aisle, holding hands and beaming.
- We didn't have any wedding cake or confetti but it was still the happiest moment of my life.
- Children ran down the streets, throwing confetti and screaming at the top of their lungs, dragging toy trains and teddy bears behind them.
- Each building was decorated with banners, flowers, coloured ribbons and confetti.
- Suddenly rose petals and paper confetti came raining down on them from the ceiling.
- Prior to being paper, confetti was originally a mix of rose petals, rice and grain.
- Children run about flinging fistfuls of fallen blossoms over everyone like wedding confetti.
- Others keep confetti and other small decorative items on hand to make a table look special.
- I took the flimsy song words on paper and ripped them up, till coloured confetti showered on my legs and hands.
- Ideally, use a shredder with a cross-cut action, as these turn paper into tiny pieces of confetti.
Origin Early 19th century (originally denoting the real or imitation sweets thrown during Italian carnivals): from Italian, literally ‘sweets’, from Latin confectum ‘something prepared’, neuter past participle of conficere ‘put together’ (see confect). |