Synonyms for bagatelle

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bag-uh-tel

Phonetic Transcription : ˌbæg əˈtɛl

Définition of bagatelle

Origin : 1630s, "a trifle," from French bagatelle "knick-knack, bauble, trinket" (16c.), from Italian bagatella "a trifle," diminutive of Latin baca "berry." As "a piece of light music," it is attested from 1827.

noun trinket

Example sentences :

I don't know that there is much soaring upwards in bagatelle.
Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope

And, after all, when they got to Berkeley Square no bagatelle was played at all.
Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope

But the bagatelle would almost have been better than what occurred.
Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope

He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.
Extract from : « The Return of Sherlock Holmes » by Arthur Conan Doyle

He could not be cold-blooded enough to drive even such a bagatelle from his head.
Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai

After we finished shooting some of us had a game of bagatelle on a table in the gun-room.
Extract from : « The Hand in the Dark » by Arthur J. Rees

He hurried off, and in a moment the clack of bagatelle began again.
Extract from : « The Island Pharisees » by John Galsworthy

I know one to be had a bargain,—a bagatelle,—five hundred naps a-year.
Extract from : « The Parisians, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"They're bagatelle," she said, using one of her mother's rare phrases.
Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Who spoke but now of 'killing time,' 'play,' 'Number One,' and 'Bagatelle'?
Extract from : « A Son of the Immortals » by Louis Tracy

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