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

"It is just finished!" the Princess called out to her; then turning again to Bertram, she said, "And thank you very much for a most charming causerie!"

From Quisisana, or Rest at Last by Friedrich Spielhagen

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

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 Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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 Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill

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

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

He and his wife spoke English with a strong foreign accent; in their more intimate causeries they dropped into Yiddish.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill

Look here, Helena," he said, "I've been feeling I was a bit of a brute about those causeries of yours.

From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke