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
We are instituting a causerie for the special benefit of this large class of readers, i.e. those who get out of their depth in the transition from Silas to Joseph.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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 Waite, Arthur Edward
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 Waddington, Mary Alsop King
"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 Spielhagen, Friedrich
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
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 Nuttall, P. Austin
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 Allen, Grant
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 Coke, Desmond
