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

A man can escape everything except himself; and so it chanced that Hubert Brett felt a brute twice, repented twice, about one causerie.

From Helena Brett's Career by Coke, Desmond

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 Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

Up to this time, he had observed a profound silence; but for all that, I fancied he was not disinclined to a little causerie.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

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

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

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 Bangs, John Kendrick

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 Bernhardt, Sarah

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 Greig, R. S.