causerie
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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
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
This could no longer--it was impossible--be the mere inspiration of the moment, and only a harmless causerie.
From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Friedrich Spielhagen
However, he congratulated me on having been able to do justice to the causerie, as if I had had a bumper house.
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by Max O'Rell
I have also read a causerie on Virgil and one on Theocritus.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
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 George Saintsbury
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 Desmond Coke
It may not be literature, the writing of causeries, of Roundabout Papers, of rambling articles “on a broomstick,” and yet again, it may be literature!
From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Andrew Lang
