causerie

Whatever was the nature of His Majesty's causerie he arrived at Santander seemingly more spruce and sprightly than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first three would make a very good group for a twenty-page causerie.

From The English Novel by George Saintsbury

He had lived much in Paris, where he studied impressionism and perfected his natural talent for causerie, and his inborn preference for the hedonistic view of life.

From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Up to this time, he had observed a profound silence; but for all that, I fancied he was not disinclined to a little causerie.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

This could no longer--it was impossible--be the mere inspiration of the moment, and only a harmless causerie.

From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Friedrich Spielhagen

As the urbane veteran of perhaps 100 diplomatic causeries in the last ten months, Mr. Davis could afford to ignore the implication of naivete.

From Time Magazine Archive

His plays are witty, caustic causeries of a decadent society.

From Time Magazine Archive

That admirable man, whom France will always worship, Canrobert, said how much he should miss and regret those intimate causeries at our five o'clock teas.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

Raffles had indeed filled that talking-machine— thirteen full cylinders of it—with as choice an assortment of causeries and humorous anecdotes as any one could have wished to hear.

From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs

Clarétie, Jules, a French journalist, novelist, dramatic author, and critic, born at Limoges; has published some 40 volumes of causeries, history, and fiction; appointed Director of the Theatre Français in 1893; b.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall