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
If you read Notes on a Cellar Book, as you should, you will agree that it is a charmingly light-hearted causerie for a gentleman to publish at the age of seventy-five.
From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan
Which laudable effort toward intellectual and artistic uplift Hamil never laughed at; and there ensued always the most astonishing causerie concerning art that two men in a wilderness ever engaged in.
From The Firing Line by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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 Spielhagen, Friedrich
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 The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
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
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 Coke, Desmond
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.
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 Saintsbury, George
