bagatelle
IPA: bˈægʌtˈɛɫ
noun
- A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
- (literature, music) A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
- (uncountable) A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
- (uncountable) Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To meander or move around, in a manner similar to the ball in the game of bagatelle.
- (transitive, rare) To bagatellize; to regard as a bagatelle.
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Examples of "bagatelle" in Sentences
- His hobby is to play bagatelle.
- They make it sound like a mere bagatelle.
- I really want my to be Bagatelle instead of Bagatel.
- The piece, though called a bagatelle, is in rondo form.
- I'm sure there are some who don't consider the bagatelle as a Waltz.
- Bagatelle is a table game and the predecessor of the pinball machine.
- A bagatelle, in Beethoven's usage, is a kind of brief character piece.
- Bagatelle is a gourmet restaurant in the borough Frogner in Oslo, Norway.
- Bagatelle was a gourmet restaurant in the borough Frogner in Oslo, Norway.
- Bagatelle from Italian bagattella, signifies a trifle, a decorative thing.
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