bagatelle – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
bagatelle
n.
unimportant thing; short light piece of classical music (esp. for piano); game similar to billiards in which players must roll balls into a scoring area using a cue stick
Bagatelle
Bagatelle (from the
Château de Bagatelle) is a
billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over. It probably developed from the table made with raised sides for
trou madame, which was also played with ivory balls and continued to be popular into the later nineteenth century, after which it developed into
bar billiards, with influences from the French/Belgian game (with supposed Russian origins). A bagatelle variant using fixed metal pins,
billard japonais, eventually led to the development of
pachinko and
pinball. Bagatelle is also laterally related to
miniature golf.
bagatelle
Noun
1. a light piece of music for piano
(hypernym) musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
2. something of little value or significance
(synonym) fluff, frippery, frivolity
(hypernym) triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer
3. a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over
(synonym) bar billiards
(hypernym) table game
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Bagatelle (die)
nf.
bagatelle, unimportant thing
bagatelle
nf.
bagatelle, trifle