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 O'Rell, Max

This work is a literary causerie inspired in part by the reading of Alexandrian criticism, but in larger part by experience.

From Horace and His Influence by Showerman, Grant

My lecture to-night at the Central Music Hall is advertised as a causerie.

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

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)

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

Five minutes of normal causeries, mere currencies of speech, and then the match to the train!

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

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 Lang, Andrew

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 Nuttall, P. Austin