bagatelle
- 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.