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

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 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

We had a great causerie over pictures of home scenes, and of many places in India.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch

These papers were begun as a part of a causerie in The Star, the other contributors to which—men whose names are household words in contemporary literature—wrote under the pen names of "Aldebaran," "Arcturus" and "Sirius."

From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

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

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

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

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