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

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 Max O'Rell

The first three would make a very good group for a twenty-page causerie.

From The English Novel by George Saintsbury

Up to this time, he had observed a profound silence; but for all that, I fancied he was not disinclined to a little causerie.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

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

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

As an essayist, a writer of causeries, I do not think he has been surpassed among Englishmen in the art of interweaving quotation, abstract, and comment.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

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