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Definition of bagatelle in English: bagatellenoun ˌbaɡəˈtɛlˌbæɡəˈtɛl 1mass noun A game in which small balls are hit and then allowed to roll down a sloping board on which there are holes, each numbered with the score achieved if a ball goes into it, with pins acting as obstructions. 弹球游戏 Example sentencesExamples - On countless occasion, Jim Jeffries' men seemed to be caught up in penalty box bagatelle in their visitors area, the Inverness defence stretched like the skin of a drum.
- Under the Bolton Corporation Act, 1872, there were also 158 licences for public music, dancing, and billiards, bagatelle, bowls, etc.
- Bagatelle games are normally played with 1 black ball and either 8 whites or 4 whites and 4 reds.
- It isn't just in the last few years that teenagers, with the hormones bouncing around their bodies like bagatelle balls, have suddenly begun to exhibit signs of volatility and truculence.
- A game of bagatelle then ensued as first Murray and then Barry Ferguson had efforts blocked.
- You watch him, and you find yourself picturing the latest shot whizzing round his body, like a silver ball in a bagatelle.
- Bagatelle was played on large slate-bed tables of a similar size to Snooker or Billiards tables.
- And as for talent, you've talent plenty at bagatelle and charming women.
- Nineteenth century bagatelle floor standing tables required cue sticks to propel ivory balls.
- For 250 NP you can try your luck at the old Bagatelle stand.
- Here, she whizzed about like a bagatelle ball.
- The original game of bagatelle was and is a pub game of skill that is closely related to the games of Billiards, Pool and Snooker.
- My uncle is showing his newly-refurbished ball-game board: he calls it Bagatelle, but it looks more like a small billiard table to me.
- We get buffeted through life like a ball-bearing in a bagatelle, bouncing off chance encounters, opportunities, unforeseen obstacles.
- Their winning goal typified the game, a piece of bash-bash bagatelle executed mostly in the air.
- William finally holed out for twelve after playing bagatelle with a few trees, a rabbit hole and a water hazard that no-one had noticed before.
- This tabletop Bagatelle game was donated to the Museum in 1982.
- It began to provide leisure facilities for its members, including rooms in the Queen Street headquarters for people who played bagatelle, billiards and ‘who wished to indulge in the doubtful activity of smoking’.
- He's flipped that in the mixer, there's a crowd scene in there and it's bagatelle football with the ball pinging around.
- Then Richard Butler took advantage of a bout of defensive bagatelle only to dribble his shot wide of the target.
Synonyms trinket, bauble, knick-knack, ornament, gewgaw, trifle, gimcrack, triviality 2A thing regarded as too unimportant or easy to be worth much consideration. （无足轻重的）小事；小把戏 dealing with these boats was a mere bagatelle for the world's oldest yacht club 对世界上资历最老的帆船俱乐部来说，应付这些船简直就是小菜一碟。 Example sentencesExamples - With this money banked, BT moves closer to its net debt target of £10 bn, a mere bagatelle for a major-ish European telco.
- The ten mill was a bagatelle, Rick said, considering what he could guarantee Tricia for the first three years.
- A mere bagatelle, one would have thought, to such a material girl.
- So here we go again - pass the bill to the long-suffering tax payer; its only £12.4 million, a mere bagatelle.
- I'm pretty shy and not that aggressive, so this is kind of a big deal to me, even if others might see it as a mere bagatelle.
- My dear, eight years' difference is a mere bagatelle.
- Compared with most large projects, this is a bagatelle, but the surreptitiously radical design that makes such poetic sense of the pixel is a gutsy move.
- Last week's controversy over the standard of Scottish refereeing (minging, as ever) is a mere bagatelle compared to the state of anguish they get into at that most fevered game, cricket.
- It was missing only a certain small gesture on Lance's part, a mere bagatelle.
- Such a sacrifice is a mere bagatelle to the committed journalist.
- 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.
- His torture over the Dome [another Blair assignment for his unelected chum] will be a bagatelle compared to what is uniquely dished out north of the Border.
- But that cup successes have already become a mere bagatelle to the midfielder points to him having a veteran's outlook to honours.
- 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.
- He certainly opens himself up to accusations of being so careless with the truth that it is a mere bagatelle to him.
- Watching it, it's got all the fun of a murder mystery musical, but the undercurrent of aggression never lets it slip into the realm of a wispy bagatelle.
- Deneuve probably intended A L' ombre de Moi-meme (In My Shadow), a collection of personal thoughts from the sets of her films, to be a mere bagatelle, an amuse-bouche for a curious reader.
- Playing 49 people in the course of one performance is, of course, a mere bagatelle for this man.
- By then, too, those dreary individuals who've droned on ad nauseam over the cost - a bagatelle in the great scheme of things - will no doubt be begging for invitations to the opening.
- Now, obviously, dyslexic old me is not suggesting for a moment that anybody should allow their self-expression to be circumscribed by such bagatelles as accepted usage.
Synonyms ornament, novelty, gewgaw, piece of bric-a-brac, bibelot, trinket, trifle, bauble, gimcrack, curio, curiosity, plaything, toy 3A short, light piece of music, especially one for the piano. （尤指钢琴演奏的）轻快小曲 Example sentencesExamples - The ovations seemed louder than ever last month as Levine worked overtime at the Met, appearing an average of every other night conducting such bagatelles as Parsifal, Ariadne auf Naxos, Nabucco, and Lulu.
- Sixteen preparatory pieces, such as preludes, etudes, bagatelles, barcarolles, nocturnes and polonaises, present, reinforce and prepare students for what is coming next.
- The few boos - a traditional Pesaro bagatelle, methinks - that met the curtain-call were, however, unmerited.
- Today's bagatelle is a familiar tune played by The Torero Band featuring the arrangements of Moorhouse.
- Its relatively thin texture and short length make this bagatelle accessible for intermediate- or early- advanced-level students.
- These were obviously intended as a pair: mere bagatelles, 3 bars long.
- There's enough material here perhaps for a half-hour bagatelle, but Brooke fatally draws things out well beyond that.
OriginMid 17th century (in sense 2): from French, from Italian bagatella, perhaps from baga 'baggage' or from a diminutive of Latin baca 'berry'. sense 1 dates from the early 19th century. RhymesAdele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, béchamel, befell, bell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, foretell, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, muscatel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, pell-mell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, rebel, repel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell Definition of bagatelle in US English: bagatellenounˌbæɡəˈtɛlˌbaɡəˈtel 1A game in which small balls are hit and then allowed to roll down a sloping board on which there are holes, each numbered with the score achieved if a ball goes into it, with pins acting as obstructions. 弹球游戏 Example sentencesExamples - This tabletop Bagatelle game was donated to the Museum in 1982.
- Bagatelle was played on large slate-bed tables of a similar size to Snooker or Billiards tables.
- Bagatelle games are normally played with 1 black ball and either 8 whites or 4 whites and 4 reds.
- Here, she whizzed about like a bagatelle ball.
- We get buffeted through life like a ball-bearing in a bagatelle, bouncing off chance encounters, opportunities, unforeseen obstacles.
- A game of bagatelle then ensued as first Murray and then Barry Ferguson had efforts blocked.
- Their winning goal typified the game, a piece of bash-bash bagatelle executed mostly in the air.
- You watch him, and you find yourself picturing the latest shot whizzing round his body, like a silver ball in a bagatelle.
- It began to provide leisure facilities for its members, including rooms in the Queen Street headquarters for people who played bagatelle, billiards and ‘who wished to indulge in the doubtful activity of smoking’.
- The original game of bagatelle was and is a pub game of skill that is closely related to the games of Billiards, Pool and Snooker.
- Nineteenth century bagatelle floor standing tables required cue sticks to propel ivory balls.
- It isn't just in the last few years that teenagers, with the hormones bouncing around their bodies like bagatelle balls, have suddenly begun to exhibit signs of volatility and truculence.
- He's flipped that in the mixer, there's a crowd scene in there and it's bagatelle football with the ball pinging around.
- Under the Bolton Corporation Act, 1872, there were also 158 licences for public music, dancing, and billiards, bagatelle, bowls, etc.
- And as for talent, you've talent plenty at bagatelle and charming women.
- My uncle is showing his newly-refurbished ball-game board: he calls it Bagatelle, but it looks more like a small billiard table to me.
- For 250 NP you can try your luck at the old Bagatelle stand.
- Then Richard Butler took advantage of a bout of defensive bagatelle only to dribble his shot wide of the target.
- William finally holed out for twelve after playing bagatelle with a few trees, a rabbit hole and a water hazard that no-one had noticed before.
- On countless occasion, Jim Jeffries' men seemed to be caught up in penalty box bagatelle in their visitors area, the Inverness defence stretched like the skin of a drum.
Synonyms trinket, bauble, knick-knack, ornament, gewgaw, trifle, gimcrack, triviality 2A thing of little importance; a very easy task. dealing with these boats was a mere bagatelle for the world's oldest yacht club 对世界上资历最老的帆船俱乐部来说，应付这些船简直就是小菜一碟。 Example sentencesExamples - Playing 49 people in the course of one performance is, of course, a mere bagatelle for this man.
- 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.
- Deneuve probably intended A L' ombre de Moi-meme (In My Shadow), a collection of personal thoughts from the sets of her films, to be a mere bagatelle, an amuse-bouche for a curious reader.
- I'm pretty shy and not that aggressive, so this is kind of a big deal to me, even if others might see it as a mere bagatelle.
- Last week's controversy over the standard of Scottish refereeing (minging, as ever) is a mere bagatelle compared to the state of anguish they get into at that most fevered game, cricket.
- He certainly opens himself up to accusations of being so careless with the truth that it is a mere bagatelle to him.
- But that cup successes have already become a mere bagatelle to the midfielder points to him having a veteran's outlook to honours.
- Compared with most large projects, this is a bagatelle, but the surreptitiously radical design that makes such poetic sense of the pixel is a gutsy move.
- So here we go again - pass the bill to the long-suffering tax payer; its only £12.4 million, a mere bagatelle.
- Such a sacrifice is a mere bagatelle to the committed journalist.
- By then, too, those dreary individuals who've droned on ad nauseam over the cost - a bagatelle in the great scheme of things - will no doubt be begging for invitations to the opening.
- Now, obviously, dyslexic old me is not suggesting for a moment that anybody should allow their self-expression to be circumscribed by such bagatelles as accepted usage.
- The ten mill was a bagatelle, Rick said, considering what he could guarantee Tricia for the first three years.
- Watching it, it's got all the fun of a murder mystery musical, but the undercurrent of aggression never lets it slip into the realm of a wispy bagatelle.
- My dear, eight years' difference is a mere bagatelle.
- A mere bagatelle, one would have thought, to such a material girl.
- It was missing only a certain small gesture on Lance's part, a mere bagatelle.
- 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.
- His torture over the Dome [another Blair assignment for his unelected chum] will be a bagatelle compared to what is uniquely dished out north of the Border.
- With this money banked, BT moves closer to its net debt target of £10 bn, a mere bagatelle for a major-ish European telco.
Synonyms ornament, novelty, gewgaw, piece of bric-a-brac, bibelot, trinket, trifle, bauble, gimcrack, curio, curiosity, plaything, toy 3A short, light piece of music, especially one for the piano. （尤指钢琴演奏的）轻快小曲 Example sentencesExamples - Sixteen preparatory pieces, such as preludes, etudes, bagatelles, barcarolles, nocturnes and polonaises, present, reinforce and prepare students for what is coming next.
- The ovations seemed louder than ever last month as Levine worked overtime at the Met, appearing an average of every other night conducting such bagatelles as Parsifal, Ariadne auf Naxos, Nabucco, and Lulu.
- These were obviously intended as a pair: mere bagatelles, 3 bars long.
- There's enough material here perhaps for a half-hour bagatelle, but Brooke fatally draws things out well beyond that.
- Its relatively thin texture and short length make this bagatelle accessible for intermediate- or early- advanced-level students.
- The few boos - a traditional Pesaro bagatelle, methinks - that met the curtain-call were, however, unmerited.
- Today's bagatelle is a familiar tune played by The Torero Band featuring the arrangements of Moorhouse.
OriginMid 17th century (in bagatelle (sense 2)): from French, from Italian bagatella, perhaps from baga ‘baggage’ or from a diminutive of Latin baca ‘berry’. bagatelle (sense 1) dates from the early 19th century. |