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

This time it was I who began the causerie.

From Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel by Florence A. (Florence Antoinette) Kilpatrick

Since he last broke a lance with Michael, the devil has debilitated mentally, and the substance of his causerie with Diana reminds one of Robert Montgomery and even worse exemplars.

From Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite

Which is the European town of six thousand inhabitants that would supply an audience of eleven hundred people to a literary causerie?

From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by Max O'Rell

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

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

It was not like those other causeries at six o'clock; she wished they always could take place at eight.

From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke

Raffles had indeed filled that talking-machine— thirteen full cylinders of it—with as choice an assortment of causeries and humorous anecdotes as any one could have wished to hear.

From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs

Clarétie, Jules, a French journalist, novelist, dramatic author, and critic, born at Limoges; has published some 40 volumes of causeries, history, and fiction; appointed Director of the Theatre Français in 1893; b.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall