causerie
Americannoun
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an informal talk or chat.
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a short, informal essay, article, etc.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of causerie
First recorded in 1820–30; from French, equivalent to caus(er) “to chat” (from Latin causārī “to plead at law,” derivative of causa “judicial proceedings, legal case, trial”) + -erie; see -ery
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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
However, he congratulated me on having been able to do justice to the causerie, as if I had had a bumper house.
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by O'Rell, Max
This work is a literary causerie inspired in part by the reading of Alexandrian criticism, but in larger part by experience.
From Horace and His Influence by Showerman, Grant
"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
It is Dryden, and not Sainte-Beuve, who is the true father of the literary causerie; and he still remains its unequalled master.
From English literary criticism by Various
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 Bernhardt, Sarah
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
As an essayist, a writer of causeries, I do not think he has been surpassed among Englishmen in the art of interweaving quotation, abstract, and comment.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
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