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• n  a light piece of music for piano
• n  something of little value or significance
• n  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

• The pin game is bagatelle (also known as sans gal, Mississippi, cockamaroo, contact with variations.
• In the last three years they have made 5 bagatelle a national craze, filled the land with glass enclosed, pin-studded playing fields for plunger-driven, hovering little balls.
• Abe Lincoln was big on bagatelle.

• fluff
• frippery
• frivolity
• bar billiards

News & Articles

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• ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is clever but lacking in life
  Much Ado About Nothing ??? Ah, to have the luxury of making a film while making another film. Such is the life of Joss Whedon, who directed and wrote the screenplay for a modern adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing while working on The Avengers . Though the results make for an interesting experiment and prove that Shakespeare is mesmerizing in almost any form, Whedon’s work is a bagatelle not ...
  June 18, 2013 - Orlando Weekly
• Bagatelle co-owner Remi Laba has police charges over truffle paste dropped
  Bagatelle co-owner Remi Laba had charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest against him dropped over his bust last August for carrying a jar of...
  June 16, 2013 - New York Post