causerie
Americannoun
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causeries
plural
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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
Up to this time, he had observed a profound silence; but for all that, I fancied he was not disinclined to a little causerie.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
It hardly seemed a speech when he was at the tribune, more like a causerie, though he told very plain truths sometimes to the peuple souverain.
From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
His hand may be traced week by week in many columns and especially, in alternate issues, on the page given up to the literary causerie.
From Old Junk by S. K. (Samuel Kerkham) Ratcliffe
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
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
Avice Milbrey had the fortune to witness one of these bed-time causeries.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
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
He had no need for all her causeries and things.
From Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke
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