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 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

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 Ayres, Harry Morgan

And it is just possible that if Goldsmith had kept to this vein of familiar causerie, the public might in time have been attracted by its quaintness.

From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by Black, William

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 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

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

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 Saintsbury, George

You can have stocks, horses, commerce, law, medicine, small talk, art, science, the theater and religion in fifteen minute causeries, every day if you like.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

Perhaps those City men took their wives to these precious causeries, but they were ever so much more away.

From Helena Brett's Career by Coke, Desmond