This week's theme: a medley of words.
bagatelle (bag-uh-TEL) noun
1. Something unimportant.
2. A kind of pinball game in which balls are struck with a cue to send
them to holes at the other end.
3. A short, light piece of verse of music.
[From French bagatelle (trifle), from Italian bagattella (trifle), possibly
from Latin baca (berry).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=bagatelle
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"The climate chaos that would unleash would make the mere collapse of
industrial society a sideshow bagatelle."
Robert Newman; It's Capitalism or a Habitable Planet - You Can't Have
Both; The Guardian (London, UK); Feb 2, 2006.
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