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

In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become!

From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd

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

He had lived much in Paris, where he studied impressionism and perfected his natural talent for causerie, and his inborn preference for the hedonistic view of life.

From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

"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

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

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

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 Grant Allen

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