bagatelle
See also: Bagatelle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bagatelle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian bagattella.
Pronunciation
Noun
bagatelle (plural bagatelles)
- A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
- 1782, Charles Macklin, Love a-la-Mode 21:,
- Sir C. Oh! dear madam, don't ask me, it's a very foolish song—a mere bagatelle.
Char. Oh! Sir Callaghan, I will admit of no excuse.
- Sir C. Oh! dear madam, don't ask me, it's a very foolish song—a mere bagatelle.
- 1850, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 68, page 226)
- […] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there […]
- 1879 (6 Sep), "Railway Projects", Railway World, 5 (36): 853
- The repayment of the cost of the western part of the road, whatever it might be, would be a mere bagatelle, for the older provinces would have been enriched by the stimulus given to business by the opening up of the plains, […]
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- 1782, Charles Macklin, Love a-la-Mode 21:,
- A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
- 2007, Norman Lebrecht, The Life And Death of Classical Music, page 7
- One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven.
- 2007, Norman Lebrecht, The Life And Death of Classical Music, page 7
- A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
- 1895, Hugh Legge, "The Repton Club", in John Matthew Knapp (ed.), The Universities and the Social Problem, page 139
- For some time they did nothing save box, but at last they went down to the bagatelle room, and played bagatelle for a bit. They marked this advance in civilization by prodding holes in the ceiling with the bagatelle cues, which gave the ceiling the appearance of a cloth target after a Gatling gun had been shooting at it.
- 1895, Hugh Legge, "The Repton Club", in John Matthew Knapp (ed.), The Universities and the Social Problem, page 139
- Any of several smaller, wooden table top games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins; also called pin bagatelle, hit-a-pin bagatelle, jaw ball.
Synonyms
Translations
trifle
literature or music
game
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pin bagatelle
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See also
Further reading
- “bagatelle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “bagatelle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “bagatelle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
bagatelle f (plural bagatelles)
Italian
Noun
bagatelle f
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