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

He speaks without notes; for, indeed, such a causerie spins itself, like a sailor's yarn, though out of finer materials.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

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 Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill

It is easier to divine the "Sources" and the inspiration of The Age of Bronze than to place the reader au courant with the literary and political causerie of the day.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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

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

This volume attempts to be, not a series of causeries on the literary history of France, but a Short History of French Literature.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

In the first of these after-dinner causeries I ventured humbly to remark that Patriotism was a vulgar vice of which I had never been guilty.

From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Grant Allen

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