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  • noun Plural form of causerie.

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Examples

  • Accept my best thanks for your interesting "causeries," which seem to me to give a very clear view of the present state of the evolution doctrine as applied to biology.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • Accept my best thanks for your interesting "causeries," which seem to me to give a very clear view of the present state of the evolution doctrine as applied to biology.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

  • Burton and his wife never forgot these delightsome causeries.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • When I first sat down to attempt these little causeries for American Film I scarcely suspected how swiftly the years—both of them—would fly by.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • When I first sat down to attempt these little causeries for American Film I scarcely suspected how swiftly the years—both of them—would fly by.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • When I first sat down to attempt these little causeries for American Film I scarcely suspected how swiftly the years—both of them—would fly by.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • The Princess de Vaudemont received her guests in Paris during the winter, and at Suresnes during the summer; and her friend the Duchess de Duras '_causeries_ were frequented by such men as Cuvier, Humboldt,

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • Similarly, because the majority of journalists and popular writers are under arms, Paris does without its accustomed daily refreshment of ephemeral literature, its comic and illustrated press, its literary and artistic causeries, its feuilletons, and chroniques.

    The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

  • Frischmann, translator of numerous scientific books; the writer of charming _causeries_, A.L. L.vinski, author of a Zionist Utopia,

    The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

  • Strictly speaking, however, they are not short stories, but discursive causeries on friends of Mr. Dreiser.

    The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

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