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bagatelle

noun
🔊/ˌbæɡəˈtel/
🔊/ˌbæɡəˈtel/
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  1. [uncountable] a game played on a board with small balls that you try to hit into holes小型台球Topics Games and toysc2
  2. [countable, usually singular] (literary) a small or unimportant thing or amount琐事；无足轻重的事；微量
    • It cost a mere bagatelle.这个只花了一点钱。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originmid 17th cent. (in sense (2)): from French, from Italian bagatella, perhaps from baga ‘baggage’ or from a diminutive of Latin baca ‘berry’. Sense (1) dates from the early 19th cent.