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

Which laudable effort toward intellectual and artistic uplift Hamil never laughed at; and there ensued always the most astonishing causerie concerning art that two men in a wilderness ever engaged in.

From The Firing Line by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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 Mary Alsop King Waddington

I am sure that a causerie by Sainte-Beuve often sends a reader, with a zest he had never found unaided, to a book he had never opened unadvised.

From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell

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

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

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

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

That admirable man, whom France will always worship, Canrobert, said how much he should miss and regret those intimate causeries at our five o'clock teas.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt