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bagatelle

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bagatelle

In music, a short character piece, often for piano.

bagatelle

Game resembling billiards but played on a board with numbered cups instead of pockets. The aim is to get the nine balls into the cups. In ordinary bagatelle each player delivers all the balls in turn; in French bagatelle two or four players take part alternately.



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Breakfast had been ordered at a pleasant little tavern, a mile or so away upon the rising ground beyond the Green, and there was a bagatelle board in the room, in case we should desire to unbend our minds after the solemnity.
He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.
"Overdue" was the title he had decided for it, and its length he believed would not be more than sixty thousand words - a bagatelle for him with his splendid vigor of production.
 
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