causerie
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Whatever was the nature of His Majesty's causerie he arrived at Santander seemingly more spruce and sprightly than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
These papers were begun as a part of a causerie in The Star, the other contributors to which—men whose names are household words in contemporary literature—wrote under the pen names of "Aldebaran," "Arcturus" and "Sirius."
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner
The first three would make a very good group for a twenty-page causerie.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
We are instituting a causerie for the special benefit of this large class of readers, i.e. those who get out of their depth in the transition from Silas to Joseph.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
A man can escape everything except himself; and so it chanced that Hubert Brett felt a brute twice, repented twice, about one causerie.
From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke
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
He and his wife spoke English with a strong foreign accent; in their more intimate causeries they dropped into Yiddish.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
But it is a good piece of special pleading, an excellent piece of writing, and one of the very best and most consummate literary causeries in English.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
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
