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

Similarly, when he turned for a too brief space to literary criticism, he proved himself the master of all living men in the art of the literary causerie.

From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd

"It is just finished!" the Princess called out to her; then turning again to Bertram, she said, "And thank you very much for a most charming causerie!"

From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Friedrich Spielhagen

We had a great causerie over pictures of home scenes, and of many places in India.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It may not be literature, the writing of causeries, of Roundabout Papers, of rambling articles “on a broomstick,” and yet again, it may be literature! 

From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Andrew Lang

Avice Milbrey had the fortune to witness one of these bed-time causeries.

From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson

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