confetti

Etymology
Borrowed (possibly via French) from, used to describe sugar-coated almonds, and by extension things imitating them (like pellets of plaster), which were thrown in Italy during festivities like Carnival and weddings. (This practice is mentioned in English since at least the 1810s. ) The French and the English adopted the practice of celebrating weddings and other festivities by throwing such candies, or (by the late 1800s) tiny pieces of colored paper symbolizing them,  partially displacing their earlier practice of throwing rice.

Noun

 * 1) Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.
 * 2)  Edible Italian sugar-coated almonds, especially those which are used as part of a traditional Italian wedding.
 * 3) * 1870, Henry T. Tuckerman, in the Boston Transcript, quoted in The New York Observer Yearbook and Almanac, page 143:
 * [...] a pale and fair devotee of fashion who has left off eating confetti, and recovered her bloom.
 * 1) * 1975, Garibaldi Marto Lapolla, The grand Gennaro, Ayer Co. Pub.:
 * Emilio and Roberto had pooled their resources in money and had arranged with the cafe keeper for steaming thick chocolate, a slow-pouring syrup-like drink, the richest boccotoni, cream-filled heavy sfogliate, and almond confetti.
 * Emilio and Roberto had pooled their resources in money and had arranged with the cafe keeper for steaming thick chocolate, a slow-pouring syrup-like drink, the richest boccotoni, cream-filled heavy sfogliate, and almond confetti.

Usage notes

 * Very rarely, a single piece of confetti may be called a, as in Italian.

Translations

 * Arabic: نِثَار
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 五彩紙屑
 * Danish: konfetti
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: confeti
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: कन्फ़ेटी
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: konfeti
 * Italian: coriandoli
 * Japanese: 紙吹雪
 * Korean: 색종이 조각
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: konfetti
 * Nynorsk: konfetti
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: конфете
 * Spanish: confeti
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kumpitis
 * Thai: ลูกปา
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: конфеті́
 * Vietnamese: công-phét-ti,

Verb

 * 1)  To scatter with confetti.

Etymology
(plural), reinterpreted as a singular (compare ). . See 🇨🇬 for more. The shift of the sense from little projectiles made of plaster to coloured pieces of paper originated in the late 19th century in Paris with their use during public festivities.

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