conversazione

American  

[kon-ver-saht-see-oh-nee, kawn-ver-sah-tsyaw-ne] / ˌkɒn vərˌsɑt siˈoʊ ni, ˌkɔn vɛr sɑˈtsyɔ nɛ /

noun

plural

conversaziones, conversazioni

1. a gathering for conversation and discussion, especially about the arts or literature.

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conversazione British  

/ ˌkɒnvəˌsætsɪˈəʊnɪ, konversatˈtsjone /

noun

1. a social gathering for discussion of the arts, literature, etc

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Etymology

Origin of conversazione

First recorded in 1740–50; from Italian; literally, “conversation, meeting to hold a conversation”; conversation ( def. )

Example Sentences

Everybody determined that it should make up in brilliance what it lacked in punctuality, and all private conversaziones, routs, and Quadrille parties were, by general consent, postponed.

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He held conversaziones in the servants' hall after dinner, while I slept balmily in front of the drawing-room fire.

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Went to a dinner-party or two, theatres, to hear Dickens read, a concert, conversazione and receptions, seeing English society, or rather one class of it, and liking what I saw.

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I was its guest at a conversazione on the Wednesday following the Saturday supper-party.

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After making obeisance to General Dolls, these doggies would form themselves into a conversazione, and go promenading round the rose-trees in twos and twos.

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