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Date: 1800-1900
Language: French
Origin: Old French ban 'military service that everyone must do, something common'

banal

 adjective
     
ba‧nal
ordinary and not interesting, because of a lack of new or different ideas [= trivial]:
conversations about the most banal subjects
—banality noun [uncountable and countable]
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