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.
- "A delicious bagatelle, frothier and more imaginative than its predecessor."
- A bagatelle is a short piece of music, usually for piano, and with a light mellow character.
- Consular 'bagatelle' was too confined in comparison with the spacious apartments in the Tuileries.
- 'bagatelle', the player's demands to leave Old Trafford are guaranteed to overshadow the game at the Britannia Stadium.
- Contredanse (1827) seems to condense ballade and mazurka into a unit that Beethoven would likely have called a bagatelle, except the sweetness belongs to Chopin.
- A mercurial and fractured look at the bond between two brothers, this nouvelle vague-inflected bagatelle is played by two of France's indelible young actors, Romain Duris and Louis Garrel.
- Malmaison was a suitable country residence for Bonaparte as long as he remained content with his town apartments in the little Luxembourg; but that Consular 'bagatelle' was too confined in comparison with the spacious apartments in the Tuileries.
- She remained in deep meditation, and began to search for the real obstacle that she had encountered, for it was impossible that it should enter the mind of any lady, that a gentleman could despise that bagatelle which is of such great price and so high value.