单词	confetti
释义	confetticon‧fet‧ti /kənˈfeti/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINconfetti Origin: 1800-1900 Italian plural of confetto ‘candy’, from Latin conficere; because candy was thrown at Italian street celebrations Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS I know that an election is coming, but as a conscientious Member I can not treat them as so much confetti. My words have been grubby confetti, faded, tacky, blown far from the wedding feast. Something resembling hard wood floors is just visible beneath a veil of potting soil and foam rubber confetti. The faces blow past in the fog like confetti. They whooped and cried, they banged pots and pans, they tossed confetti into the air. Thousands of pieces of floating debris stretched for 10 miles like a ribbon of confetti on the water. Tiny white blossoms patterned the pavement like confetti. small pieces of coloured paper that you throw into the air over people who have just got married or at events such as parties, parades etc
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