Bagatelle
[,bægə'tel] or [,bæɡə'tɛl]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) something of little value or significance.
(noun.) a light piece of music for piano.
Inputed by Jeff--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A trifle; a thing of no importance.
(n.) 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.
Checker: Marsha
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Trifle, small matter, thing of no consequence or importance.
Checker: Sherman
Definition
n. a trifle: a piece of music in a light style: a game played on a board (7 feet long and 21 inches broad) with nine balls and a cue the object being to put the balls down into as many numbered holes at the farther semicircular end of the board.
Checker: Thelma
Examples
- What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Tulkinghorn is received with distinction and seated near the coroner between that high judicial officer, a bagatelle-board, and the coal-box. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Clubs: The Anglo-Indian, the Tankerville, the Bagatelle Card Club. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Typed by Cyril