causerie

[ koh-zuh-ree; French kohzuh-ree ]

/ ˌkoʊ zəˈri; French koʊzəˈri /

an informal talk or chat.

a short, informal essay, article, etc.

Origin of causerie

1820–30; < French, equivalent to caus(er) to chat (< Latin causārī to plead at law, derivative of causa case) + -erie -ery

There was nothing, he found, like a Causerie du Lundi for settling and soothing the troubled spirits.

Crome Yellow |Aldous Huxley
Early in the seventeenth century the causerie (chat) was highly esteemed in France.

Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 |Lillian Eichler Watson
I was once booked by my manager to give a causerie in the drawing-room of a New York millionaire.

Essays on Paul Bourget |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
His Sunday holiday was given to the proof-reading of his next day's "Causerie du Lundi."

The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume II (of 2) |Benjamin Ellis Martin

In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become!

The Art of Letters |Robert Lynd

causerie

/ (ˈkəʊzərɪ, French kozri) /

an informal talk or conversational piece of writing

C19: from French, from causer to chat