bagatelle – English noun declension

English noun forms of bagatelle

Noun: bagatelle
Singularbagatelle
Pluralbagatelles

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1782, Charles Macklin, Love a-la-Mode, page 21:]
  • […] 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 […] [1850, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 68, page 226:]
  • The repayment of the cost of the western part of the road, whatever it might be, would be a mere bagatelle, for the older provinces would have been enriched by the stimulus given to business by the opening up of the plains,[…] [1879 September 6, “Railway Projects”, in Railway World, 5 (36): 853:]
  • They'd purchased a little house in the eighth arrondissement in Paris that for them was just a bagatelle, since they rarely lived there. [1996, Edmund White, “The tea ceremony”, in Ploughshares, volume 22, number 1, page 190:]
  • 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. [2007, Norman Lebrecht, The Life And Death of Classical Music, page 7:]
  • 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. [1895, Hugh Legge, “The Repton Club”, in John Matthew Knapp, editor, The Universities and the Social Problem, page 139:]

Etymology

Borrowed from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella. See: French Nouns 'bagatelle', Italian Nouns 'bagattella'.