English Dictionary

bagatelle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌbæɡəˈtɛl/

名詞

A trifle; an insubstantial thing. / (literature, music) A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.

日本語の意味

取るに足らないもの、些細なこと / 短い文学作品や軽妙な楽曲

She dismissed his apology as a bagatelle and carried on with her day.

彼女は彼の謝罪を取るに足らない些細なことだと一蹴し、そのまま一日を過ごした。

意味（1）

A trifle; an insubstantial thing.

Sir C. Oh! dear madam, don't ask me, it's a very foolish song—a mere bagatelle. Char. Oh! Sir Callaghan, I will admit of no excuse.

意味（2）

(literature, music) A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.

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.

意味（3）

A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.

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.

意味（4）

Any of several smaller, wooden table top games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins; also called pin bagatelle, hit-a-pin bagatelle, jaw ball.

bagatelles （ plural ）