bagatelle
Speech parts
1. bagatelle - Noun
2. bagatelle - Verb
Meaning
A trifle; a thing of no importance.
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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The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.
He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.
What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
Alberto Santos-Dumont realizes the first official flight, 23 October 1906, Bagatelle field.
Aida’s exploit, a round-trip flight between a polo match at Bagatelle and Neuilly St. James lasted one-and-a-half hours.
Going up against St. Silas Primary at the Bagatelle ground, two unanswered second-half goals gave them the points needed to continue their mark in the upper echelons of the group.