Sekirov Dictionary

bagatelle

/ˌbæɡəˈtɛl/

noun 4
verb 2
forms 3

noun4

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A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
- 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. — 1782
•
A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
- 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
A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.

verb2

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(rare) To meander or move around, in a manner similar to the ball in the game of bagatelle.
- Admittedly Mané’s strike did rebound off a post as the ball bagatelled around the home area. It was characteristically cleared before Roberto Firmino could redirect the fall out beyond Henderson. — 2019
(rare) To bagatellize; to regard as a bagatelle.

forms

bagatelled · bagatelling · bagatelles

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