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

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

If you read Notes on a Cellar Book, as you should, you will agree that it is a charmingly light-hearted causerie for a gentleman to publish at the age of seventy-five.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

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

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

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

I forget in which of his many dealings with an author who, as he remarks in the "Coppet-and-Weimar" causeries, was "an idol of his youth and one that he never renounced," this fancy occurs.

From Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy by R. S. Greig

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