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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