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

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

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

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

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)

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

You can have stocks, horses, commerce, law, medicine, small talk, art, science, the theater and religion in fifteen minute causeries, every day if you like.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

It was not like those other causeries at six o'clock; she wished they always could take place at eight.

From Helena Brett's Career by Coke, Desmond

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