confetto

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noun

A single piece of confetti; singular of confetti.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounconfetto (plural confetti)

plural confetti

  1. rareA single piece of confetti; singular of confetti.

    I cast a confetto or two at the happy pair.

    1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volume 181, page 260
    1 more example

    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.

    1993, Outerbridge, page 49

Origin

  1. Italianconfetto
  2. Englishconfetto

From Italian confetto. Doublet of comfit, confect, confit, and konfyt.

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