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confetti

/kuhn-fet-ee for 1; Italian kawn-fet-tee for 2/US // kənˈfɛt i for 1; Italian kɔnˈfɛt ti for 2 //UK // (kənˈfɛtɪ) //

碎纸片,碎纸屑,糖果纸屑,碎屑

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n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1

    singular con·fet·to [kuhn-fet-oh Italian kawn-fet-taw] /kənˈfɛt oʊ Italian kɔnˈfɛt tɔ/ for 2.

    • : small bits of paper, usually colored, thrown or dropped from a height to enhance the gaiety of a festive event, as a parade, wedding, or New Year's Eve party.
    • : confections; bonbons.

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Examples

  • Glass fragments from windows, street lamps, car windshields, and theater marquees littered the streets like confetti.

  • As we pulled back the sheets the bed was full of confetti in the Basque colors, red, white and green.

  • For the finale, models dressed in gold joined St. Vincent on stage, dancing as confetti fell from the ceiling.

  • Kelly Clarkson tearfully belting “A Moment Like This” while confetti falls around her?

  • But when the confetti dropped it was Assaf who stood in disbelief, his life forever changed.

  • Aristide in a hideous red mask and with a bag of confetti under his arm, plunged with enthusiasm into the revelry.

  • Your mad career generally ended in a crowd and a free fight of confetti.

  • The people in the windows here threw down not only confetti but flowers, and stacks at each elbow added to the mass of color.

  • Fragments were spun off the whirl of people, bits of BSG uniforms torn off their wearers and tossed like confetti.

  • Let her try to mix up confetti or a toy balloon with a tall skinny man and the police would get a hurry call!