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
Example Sentences
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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 Max O'Rell
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
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 Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
The first three would make a very good group for a twenty-page causerie.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
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
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
This volume attempts to be, not a series of causeries on the literary history of France, but a Short History of French Literature.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
There was an intimate tender tone about these causeries.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
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