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
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
"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
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
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 Friedrich Spielhagen
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
Five minutes of normal causeries, mere currencies of speech, and then the match to the train!
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
Raffles had indeed filled that talking-machine— thirteen full cylinders of it—with as choice an assortment of causeries and humorous anecdotes as any one could have wished to hear.
From R. Holmes & Co. by John Kendrick Bangs
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 Desmond Coke
