Meaning of BAGATELLE
| Pronunciation: | | `bagu'tel
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | bar billiards, fluff, frippery, frivolity |
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| | See Also: | | composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music, stuff, sundries, sundry, table game, whatchamacallit, whatsis | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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