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  • noun Plural form of bagatelle.

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Examples

  • "bagatelles" with a few friendly lines to Voltaire, and invited him to accompany him to Potsdam.

    Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends 1843

  • Mozart said that the publisher who bought some of these "bagatelles" and printed them without applying to him was a scamp (Lump), but took no proceedings against him.) 149.

    Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1905

  • I tugged at a cupboard, and sure enough, a flood of miscellany spilled out all over the floor: bits of string and bags of rubber bands and bunches of dead flowers, a loving cup, old vinyl records, empty boxes, broken bagatelles.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • I tugged at a cupboard, and sure enough, a flood of miscellany spilled out all over the floor: bits of string and bags of rubber bands and bunches of dead flowers, a loving cup, old vinyl records, empty boxes, broken bagatelles.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • Oh, I know many of these soulless enterprises make a boatload of money for their stars and the studio suits and that there explains the why of it... but beyond that, after these bloated bagatelles make their investment money back, what then?

    Big money horror: who cares? Arbogast 2008

  • “Believe me, all the statues in England are bagatelles compared with these,” Nys wrote to Charles.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • “Believe me, all the statues in England are bagatelles compared with these,” Nys wrote to Charles.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • “Believe me, all the statues in England are bagatelles compared with these,” Nys wrote to Charles.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • “Believe me, all the statues in England are bagatelles compared with these,” Nys wrote to Charles.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • It was only twenty-four hours later; but hours alive with the throbs, the surprises, the delicious bagatelles of a rapidly deepening feeling.

    Succedaneum 2004

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