Noun: confetto
| Singular | confetto |
| Plural | confetti |
Sample Sentences
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I cast a confetto or two at the happy pair. [1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volume 181, page 260:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like confetto
scampo,
smalto,
panzerotto,
fumetto,
grissino,
confetto,
concetto,
bozzetto,
pentito,
contorno,
cortissimo,
porcino,
sampietrino,
puntello,
biscotto,
madrigaletto,
dipinto,
latticino,
piffero,
pasticciotto, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian confetto. Doublet of comfit, confect, confit, and konfyt. See: Italian Nouns '
confetto'.