1. [uncountable] a game played on a board with small balls that you try to hit into holesTopics

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2. [countable, usually singular] (literary) a small or unimportant thing or amount
   • ● It cost a mere bagatelle.
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.

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