[ UK /bˈæɡe‍ɪtə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. something of little value or significance
  2. 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
  3. a light piece of music for piano
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How To Use bagatelle In A Sentence

  • It's not so much the price - £3m, which in stockbroker Surrey, on a direct line to Waterloo, is a mere bagatelle - but more the style that requires a certain kind of buyer.
  • Louis XIV's brother Duke Arthur - a bit of a playboy, by all accounts - installed a billiard table with pegs in the games room of his Castle Bagatelle gaff.
  • I thought for sure that "atonal" would first turn up in a discussion of Liszt's music, but "omnitonal" seems to be the phrase that his contemporaries — those who had the chance to hear pieces like the Bagatelle, at least — used. Mod squad
  • He's flipped that in the mixer, there's a crowd scene in there and it's bagatelle football with the ball pinging around.
  • For 250 NP you can try your luck at the old Bagatelle stand.
  • This is a mere bagatelle by the standards on BBC Online sites, clocking in excess of 80 million a month, but it's still not at all bad.
  • Bagatelle games are normally played with 1 black ball and either 8 whites or 4 whites and 4 reds.
  • And as for talent, you've talent plenty at bagatelle and charming women.
  • So here we go again - pass the bill to the long-suffering tax payer; its only £12.4 million, a mere bagatelle.
  • The ten mill was a bagatelle, Rick said, considering what he could guarantee Tricia for the first three years.
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