confetti
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- noun
- /kənˈfɛti/
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confeti
- After the wedding ceremony, guests tossed confetti over the happy couple as they exited the venue.
There will be both white matte finished confetti and silver confetti.
- There will be both white matte finished confetti and silver confetti.
- So on the pavement by the car, it's confetti, it's everywhere.
- And they had pieces of the turf and the confetti in the packaging with the shoes.
- You've got balloons, confetti, you've got the lasers and the fireworks.
- We use sparkle, we use glitter and and confetti and things that sort of feel almost effervescent.
- There's a spotlight and of course all of the other screens, balloons, confetti.
- And, you know, there were other things as well, poppers that you'd pull and it it would shoot out confetti.
Examples
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Spectators run onto the dance space and throw confetti to signal the end of the Mutomboko dance.
Academic text (2006) -
The whole arena erupts in confetti bombs.
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It's like Christmas morning, you know, just paper, flying confetti, flying clothes, flying shoes.
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A massive amount of confetti and balloons falls on everyone.
Fiction book (2002) -
Suddenly, confetti and balloons pour down on him out of the L.A. night sky.
Fiction book (2002) -
There will be both white matte finished confetti and silver confetti.
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Rock music pounds the room as silver confetti drops from the ceiling.
Fiction book (1995) -
You brought great energy to the campus, and the celebratory confetti is still falling.
Blog text (22) -
Some are throwing cornmeal and confetti in all directions.
Fiction book (2002) -
Bring on the confetti!
How Festive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Confetti comes from Italian where it originally meant small sweet 'confections' that people threw at celebrations, and it shares the same root as the English word confection. That's why confetti are small bits you throw to celebrate, and later paper pieces replaced the sweets.