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noun

Bagatelle n.

A trifle; a thing of no importance. "Rich trifles, serious bagatelles."

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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Etymology of 'Bagatelle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... used to handling money. I didn't come out here for a bagatelle. My uncle wanted me to stay East and go in on the Mobile custom house, work up the Washington end of it; he said there was a fortune in it for a smart young fellow, but I preferred to take the chances out here. Did I tell you I had an offer from Bobbett and Fanshaw to go into their office as ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... the public room. They're always quarreling there, over their drink and the bagatelle-board; and Dick has to turn them out. But ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... their way of life or proving persistent lawbreakers might be hived in reserves with their wives and families. The reserves themselves would cost nothing, the Indians could find employment as other Indians have, and the expense of establishing would be a bagatelle. As a matter of fact, in spite of all the bad bargains having always been on the Indian side when sales and treaties were made with the whites, there is enough money to the credit of the Indians in the hands of the Government to establish a dozen hives and keep the people in them as idle ...

— Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador • William Wood

... part of Alaska—that is, beyond the Endicott Range—to obtain this rare plant for me. You have already flown over the North Pole and a trip which carries one only three or four degrees beyond the Arctic Circle is a mere bagatelle to you." ...

— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood

... you see one of those naval officers has turned round and heard you? My dear Clopper, it was a mere childish bagatelle." ...

— The Fatal Boots • William Makepeace Thackeray

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