DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUN 3. a game played on a table having a semi-circular end at which are nine holes; the balls used are struck from the opposite end of the board with a cue; the name is sometimes applied to a modified form of billiards known also as semi-billiards also BAGATE, BAGATELL, BAGATELLO, BAGGATELLE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES from French bagatelle, from Italian bagatella, a diminutive form which Diez attaches to Parmesan bagata a little property, probably from late Latin baga c 1645 - (noun 1) Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren, James Howell; see Example below From:Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ.
Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign By James Howell The Seventh Edition. 1705 Volume II P. 316/317
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