bagatelle
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Is bagatelle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (literature, music) A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.Examples: "One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven."countableuncountable
2. (uncountable) A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.Examples: "For some time they did nothing save box, but at last they went down to the bagatelle room, and played bagatelle for a bit. They marked this advance in civilization by prodding holes in the ceiling with the bagatelle cues, which gave the ceiling the appearance of a cloth target after a Gatling gun had been shooting at it."uncountable
3. (uncountable) Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.Synonyms: pin bagatelle, hit-a-pin bagatelle, jaw balluncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, rare) To meander or move around, in a manner similar to the ball in the game of bagatelle.Examples: "Admittedly Mané’s strike did rebound off a post as the ball bagatelled around the home area. It was characteristically cleared before Roberto Firmino could redirect the fall out beyond Henderson."intransitiverare
2. (transitive, rare) To bagatellize; to regard as a bagatelle.Examples: "That Saddam Hussein announced his intentions to destroy Israel a long time ago was either ignored or bagatelled. “We just didn't have time to address the threat to Israel,” explained Brigitte Erler on the eve of a large peace demonstration in Bonn."raretransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary