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/bˈæɡeɪtəl/
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NOUN
- something of little value or significance
- 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
- a light piece of music for piano
How To Use bagatelle In A Sentence
- The original game of bagatelle was and is a pub game of skill that is closely related to the games of Billiards, Pool and Snooker.
- Watching it, it's got all the fun of a murder mystery musical, but the undercurrent of aggression never lets it slip into the realm of a wispy bagatelle.
- If I could threaten the fellow, mayhap I could get it back for you...' `A mere bagatelle...' Cibber was shilly-shallying. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- It began to provide leisure facilities for its members, including rooms in the Queen Street headquarters for people who played bagatelle, billiards and ‘who wished to indulge in the doubtful activity of smoking’.
- Deneuve probably intended A L' ombre de Moi-meme (In My Shadow), a collection of personal thoughts from the sets of her films, to be a mere bagatelle, an amuse-bouche for a curious reader.
- I'm pretty shy and not that aggressive, so this is kind of a big deal to me, even if others might see it as a mere bagatelle.
- With this money banked, BT moves closer to its net debt target of £10 bn, a mere bagatelle for a major-ish European telco.
- Its relatively thin texture and short length make this bagatelle accessible for intermediate- or early- advanced-level students.
- But then, he was gaining in popularity, and what did it matter if his office was filled to overflowing with exotic paraphernalia, he was reaching that apex to which he had aspired, and the emolument was a mere bagatelle. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
- We get buffeted through life like a ball-bearing in a bagatelle, bouncing off chance encounters, opportunities, unforeseen obstacles.
