BAGATELLE

Bagatelle

Bagatelle is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls past wooden pins into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over. It probably developed from the table made with raised sides for trou madame, which was also played with ivory balls and continued to be popular into the later nineteenth century. A bagatelle variant using fixed metal pins, billard Japonais, eventually led to the development of pinball and pachinko. Bagatelle is also laterally related to miniature golf. It also known as bar billiards.

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bagatelle

Noun

  1. A trifle; an unsubstantial thing.
  2. A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
  3. A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
  4. Any of several smaller, wooden table top games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins; also called pin bagatelle, hit-a-pin bagatelle, jaw ball.


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