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What holiday decorations were originally sweet and edible?

Since ancient times, there has been a tradition to shower the participants of balls, carnivals, weddings with sweets. They got the name "confetti" from the Italian word for "candied" (hence the candy also got its name). Later, they came up with the idea of replacing sweets with small pieces of paper, but the word for them - confetti - remained the same.

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