English-French translations for bagatelle

• bagatelle
  Permettez-moi de conclure par une dernière remarque: tout le monde a tendance à considérer les droits d'accises comme une bagatelle. Let me conclude with one comment. Everyone regards excise duties as mere bagatelles.
  Et les quatorze autres pays de l'UE auront véritablement une nouvelle constitution, c'est-à-dire cette petite bagatelle qui remplacera cette autre petite bagatelle, à savoir la constitution danoise. And the other 14 countries in the EU are getting a new constitution, a new basic law, this little bagatelle in fact, which will replace this little bagatelle, the Danish Constitution.
• broutille
• babiole

Definition of bagatelle

• A trifle; an insubstantial thing
• A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character
• A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only
• 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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