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

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

A man can escape everything except himself; and so it chanced that Hubert Brett felt a brute twice, repented twice, about one causerie.

From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke

Which is the European town of six thousand inhabitants that would supply an audience of eleven hundred people to a literary causerie?

From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by Max O'Rell

It is easier to divine the "Sources" and the inspiration of The Age of Bronze than to place the reader au courant with the literary and political causerie of the day.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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

This volume attempts to be, not a series of causeries on the literary history of France, but a Short History of French Literature.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

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

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 Sarah Bernhardt