pagliuzza — meaning in English

English meaning

• bagatelle noun A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
• mote noun A small particle; a speck.
• straw noun Dried stalks left over from cereal crops like wheat, used for bedding, fodder, or thatch.
• wisp noun A thin, light streak or strand of something, such as smoke, hair, or cloud.

Senses

pagliuzza is used for these senses in English:

• bagatelle A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
• mote (literary, or, puristic, otherwise, archaic) A small particle; a speck.
• straw (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
• wisp A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.

bagatelle — full definition

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

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