bagatelle
Example Sentences
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An absurd game of bagatelle, and the hosts have got away with one.
From The Guardian
Field was Tiger Beat famous, an icon on two sitcom bagatelles, before she could act.
From Washington Post
The host named it after his house, and bagatelle became wildly popular.
From Seattle Times
It’s a dazzling picture, but Delacroix’s open competition with Rubens, who was denied a riposte by virtue of being two centuries deceased, gives it the air of an elephantine bagatelle.
From The New Yorker
—Pinball: The arcade games that have players use flippers to deflect steel balls through mazes grew from an 18th Century French table game called bagatelle.
From Seattle Times
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