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Bagatelle. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bagatelle Forms: 7 bagatell, baggatelle, bagatello, 7–8 bagatel, 8– bagatelle. [a. F. bagatelle, ad. It. bagatella, a dim. form which Diez attaches to Parmesan bagata a little property, prob. from baga: see BAGGAGE. With bagatello, cf. -ADO suff. 2. Formerly quite naturalized in sense 1, now scarcely so; sense 2 is purely Eng. in origin and use.]

1   1.  A trifle, a thing of no value or importance.

2 c. 1645.  Howell, Lett., II. xxi. Your trifles and bagatels are ill bestowed upon me.

3 1658.  J. Robinson, Eudoxa, i. 4. Every particular thing … even unto the smallest bagatello’s.

4 1659.  Gauden, Tears Ch., 102 (D.). To please themselves with toyes and bagatelloes.

5 1679.  Mrs. Behn, Feign’d Curtizan, II. i. Ah Baggatelles, Seignior, Baggatelles.

6 a. 1733.  North, Exam., II. v. ¶ 100. He makes a meer Bagatel of it.

7 1786.  T. Jefferson, Writ., 1859, I. 566. As to the satisfaction for slaves carried off, it is a bagatelle.

8 1872.  Baker, Nile Trib., iv. 53. The bonâ fide tax is a bagatelle to the amounts squeezed from him by the … soldiery.

9   b.  A piece of verse or music in a light style.

10 1827.  Gent. Mag., XCVII. II. 618. The best amatory and pastoral bagatelles in our language.

11 1880.  Grove, Dict. Mus., Bagatelle, a short piece of pianoforte music in a light style.

12   † c.  attrib. or as adj. Trifling, trumpery. Obs.

13 1637.  Bastwick, Litany, I. 17. All which they haue … ouerthrowne with their baggatelle invention.

14   2.  A game played on a table having a semicircular end at which are nine holes. The balls used are struck from the opposite end of the board with a cue. The name is sometimes applied to a modified form of billiards known also as semi-billiards.

15 1819.  P. O. Lond. Direct., 343. Thurston, John … Billiard Table and Bagatelle Manufacturer.

16 1854.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, III. 298. They have cards and bagatelle to keep them.

17   b.  attrib. as bagatelle-ball, -board, -room.

18 1837.  Dickens, Pickw., xiv. A bagatelle-board on the first floor.

19 1854.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, II. 19. The numbered sockets in a bagatelle-board.

20 1863.  H. Kingsley, A. Elliot, II. xvii. 235. Austin went on knocking the bagatelle-balls about.

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