Citations:confetto

a single bit of confetti

 * 1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volume 181, page 260:
 * I cast a confetto or two at the happy pair.
 * 1955, The Science reports of the Research Institutes. Series C. Medicine. , page 428:
 * Namely, during the three-drug treatment for a long period, the annular shadow of a cavity was replaced by a small, homogenous and dense shadow with or without radiating streaks like a star or a confetto. Sometimes ..
 * 1991, College Band Directors National Association Journal, page 54:
 * [...] as inferred from the old Venetian rhyme: Dante Gabriel Rosetti owned a bounty of confetti quite unlike poor Canaletto who had only one confetto. (But that cannot have influenced our composer)
 * 1993, Outerbridge, page 49:
 * 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.

italicized

 * 1906, Medical Review, page 152:
 * In this position the periosteum presented a solution of continuity of the size of a confetto. The abscess cavity was washed out with oxygenated water, a drainage tube was passed behind the ischio-pubic rami, and the wound was sutured.
 * 1999, Alberto Moravia, The Conformist: A Novel, Zoland Books, page 150:
 * A beggar. But instead of asking for money, the man had asked, in a hoarse voice, "Will you give me a confetto, newlyweds?" and at the same time had thrust his hand into the car.


 * unclear if this one is italicized or not; can't see the preview:


 * 2012, Massimo Montanari, Let the Meatballs Rest, and Other Stories about Food and Culture, Columbia University Press (ISBN 9780231157322):
 * One should not be in a hurry when savoring a confetto, for to find the seed requires attention and concentration.


 * 1845, Giacomo Carnevale, Notizie storiche dell'antico e moderno Tortonese, raccolte da Conte G. Carnevale, page 24:
 * I congiunti, e gli amici fanno loro corteggio, nel ritorno alla casa dalla Chiesa sono salutati da lieti evviva dai ragazzi ai quali vengano gettati dallo sposo confetti, nocciuoli, od amandole; ...