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

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 A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

This time it was I who began the causerie.

From Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel by Florence A. (Florence Antoinette) Kilpatrick

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 Sir Owen Seaman

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

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

He and his wife spoke English with a strong foreign accent; in their more intimate causeries they dropped into Yiddish.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill

It may not be literature, the writing of causeries, of Roundabout Papers, of rambling articles “on a broomstick,” and yet again, it may be literature! 

From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Andrew Lang

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