Meanings (ES + gloss)
bagatela • chuchería • frivolidad • fruslería • futilidad • menudencia • minucia • nadería • nimiedad • nonada • pequeñez
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.
[…] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there…
bagatela
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.
billar romano
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 hole…
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