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"ref": "1996, Edmund White, “The tea ceremony”, in Ploughshares, volume 22, number 1, page 190",
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"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"French terms borrowed from Italian",
"French terms derived from Italian",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French terms with audio links"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "bagatel·la",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: bagatel·la",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: bagatel·la"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "bagatel",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Danish: bagatel",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Danish: bagatel"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "bagatel",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: bagatel",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: bagatel"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bagatelle",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: bagatelle",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: bagatelle"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Bagatelle",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Bagatelle",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Bagatelle"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "el",
"2": "μπαγκατέλα",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Greek: μπαγκατέλα (bagkatéla)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Greek: μπαγκατέλα (bagkatéla)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "it",
"3": "bagattella",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Italian bagattella",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "it",
"3": "bagattella"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Italian bagattella",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Italian bagattella.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bagatelles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "bagatelle f (plural bagatelles)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"bagatelle, trinket, bauble"
],
"links": [
[
"bagatelle",
"bagatelle#English"
],
[
"trinket",
"trinket"
],
[
"bauble",
"bauble"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"trifle"
],
"links": [
[
"trifle",
"trifle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(food) trifle"
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"food",
"lifestyle"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ba.ɡa.tɛl/"
},
{
"audio": "Fr-bagatelle.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0f/Fr-bagatelle.ogg/Fr-bagatelle.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Fr-bagatelle.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "bagatelle"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "noun form",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "bagatelle f",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian noun forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bagatella"
}
],
"glosses": [
"plural of bagatella"
],
"links": [
[
"bagatella",
"bagatella#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "bagatelle"
}
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