causerie

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Causerie, kōz′ri, n. a talk or gossip: a paragraph of chat about literature or art; a short and informal essay on any subject in a newspaper or magazine—as in Sainte-Beuve's famous Causeries du Lundi.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Des cinq Essais que contient ce livre, trois sont sous forme de dialogue et donnent l’impression parfaite de ce qui fut le plus grand prestige de WILDE: la Causerie.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

The following day the Causerie appeared, and its author shut himself up again with another set of books to produce another criticism.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine

There was nothing, he found, like a Causerie du Lundi for settling and soothing the troubled spirits.

From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous

"Nocturne," "Oscar," "Causerie," and "Le Maillot de Madame" were once marked for special commendation by a critic who certainly deserved the epithet of competent, in addition to those of fair and gentle.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George