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

If you read Notes on a Cellar Book, as you should, you will agree that it is a charmingly light-hearted causerie for a gentleman to publish at the age of seventy-five.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

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

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 Arthur Edward Waite

Similarly, when he turned for a too brief space to literary criticism, he proved himself the master of all living men in the art of the literary causerie.

From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd

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

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

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

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