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Bagatelle

Bagatelle Meaning & Definition
Bagatelle Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bagatelle?

[n] (British) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over
[n] something of little value or significance
[n] a light piece of music for piano

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bagatelle: bar billiards | fluff | frippery | frivolity

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bagatelle: a continental | a curse | a damn | a darn | a hoot | bauble | bean | bibelot | bit | brass farthing | button | cent | curio | farce | farthing | feather | fig | fleabite | folderol | fribble | frippery | gaud | gewgaw | gimcrack | hair | halfpenny | hardly anything | hill of beans | jest | joke | kickshaw | knickknack | knickknackery | mere nothing | minikin | mockery | molehill | next to nothing | peppercorn | picayune | pin | pinch of snuff | pinprick | rap | red cent | row of pins | rush | shit | snap | sneeshing | sou | straw | toy | trifle | trinket | triviality | tuppence | two cents | twopence | whim-wham

See Also | composition | musical composition | opus | piece | piece of music | stuff | sundries | sundry | table game | whatchamacallit | whatsis

Bagatelle In Webster's Dictionary

\Bag`a*telle"\, n. [F., fr. It. bagatella; cf. Prov. It. bagata trifle, OF. bague, Pr. bagua, bundle. See {Bag}, n.] 1. A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. --Prior. 2. A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

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