| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bagatelle |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bag·a·telle |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b g  -t l |
| NOUN: | 1. An unimportant or insignificant thing; a trifle. 2. A short, light piece of verse or music. 3. A game played on an oblong table with a cue and balls. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from Italian bagatella, diminutive of dialectal bagata, little property, possibly from Latin b ca, berry.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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