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
He speaks without notes; for, indeed, such a causerie spins itself, like a sailor's yarn, though out of finer materials.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
It hardly seemed a speech when he was at the tribune, more like a causerie, though he told very plain truths sometimes to the peuple souverain.
From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
Was the book to be a causerie, or a plain statement of facts?
From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland
Since he last broke a lance with Michael, the devil has debilitated mentally, and the substance of his causerie with Diana reminds one of Robert Montgomery and even worse exemplars.
From Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite
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
In the first of these after-dinner causeries I ventured humbly to remark that Patriotism was a vulgar vice of which I had never been guilty.
From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Grant Allen
He had no need for all her causeries and things.
From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke
