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bagatelle
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Bagatelle is a one-act opéra-comique by Jacques Offenbach , with a French libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ernest Blum . It was first produced on 21 May 1874 at Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens under the direction of the composer.
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n. a light piece of music for piano something of little value or significance [syn: fluff , frippery , frivolity ] 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of bagatelle.
It was chockablock with salons and saloons, hippodromes and nickel pitches, emporia, divertissements, hijinks, kickshaws, bagatelles, burlesque, and buffoonery.
She set off briskly, sniffing appreciatively at the smell of freshly-baked bread as she passed the boulangerie in the Place de Bagatelle, and smiling to herself at the old men sitting outside a cafe enjoying their coffees and fines.
They seemed to regard the war as a mere bagatelle, not worth being in earnest about.
As nuclear weapons went, it was the veriest bagatelle compared to the five megaton monsters already developed by both the United States and Russia, developing barely one-thousandth of the explosive power of those and hardly capable of devastating more than a square mile of territory.
A mere bagatelle, massing three times the rest of all the planets and moons in the solar system combined!
By now David himself had reached the Place de Bagatelle, and Julia glimpsed the light blur that was his raincoat cross the road and disappear beside the small church, which stood on an island in the middle of the Place.
Out walking her dog, she had found a sick man behind the church in the Place de Bagatelle in Neuilly.
But I don't want your good looks, and I don't want your womanly feelings, and I don't want your thoughts nor opinions nor your ideas--they are all bagatelles to me.
Ikey Bates (Landlord of Rat's Castle, proprietor of two-penny dabs and a scandalous bagatelle board, having cut the bumblepuppy as too low!
Ikey Bates (Landlord of Rat's Castle, proprietor of two-penny dabs and a scandalous bagatelle board, having cut the bumblepuppy as too low!
Ikey Bates (Landlord of Rat's Castle, proprietor of twopenny dabs and a scandalous bagatelle board, having cut the bumblepuppy as too low!
What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
But for his hosts, that seeming bagatelle may be the one missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle that has eluded them for a long time.
Like bagatelles we felt in that tremendous place, the weird luminaries gleaming above like garlands of frozen suns, the enigmatic hosts of animate cubes and spheres and pyramids trooping past.
The Jardins de Bagatelle, the Rio Samba, the Paul McCartney rose, the Auguste Renoir, the Barbara Bush, the Voodoo, and the Bride’.