bagatelle
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A bagatelle the length of a pop song, Beethoven’s trifle is recognizable from the start: a wobble between E and D sharp that gives way to a tune you’ve heard virtually everywhere.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021
But that case involved tens of thousands of dollars - a mere bagatelle compared to the monster cryptocurrency scam whose story is being told in an enthralling BBC podcast.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2019
Besides the wet bar, there’s a card table and a bagatelle table, a game derived from billiards.
From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2019
Aside from a small display at the entrance featuring an 1800s-era bagatelle and amusing assortment of objects inside vintage machines, visitors are left to self-discovery.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2018
My object in going to the Crimea was to speculate in munitions of war, which I supposed would be sold for a mere bagatelle.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
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