causerie

Example Sentences

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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

It hardly seemed a speech when he was at the tribune, more like a causerie, though he told very plain truths sometimes to the peuple souverain.

From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

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 Howe, Julia Ward

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 Zangwill, Israel

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 Seaman, Owen, Sir