causeur

• The Emperor William was an entertaining and interesting _causeur_. —  Im Weltkriege. English
• As a _causeur_ of some repute in his own estimation, he considered himself in duty bound to take vengeance for such negligence, and spun out his story to its extreme attenuation before suffering his hostess to escape. —  Belles and Ringers
• Buzfuz, it is now well known, was drawn from a leading serjeant of his day, Serjeant Bompas, K.C. Not so long since I was sitting by Bompas's son, the present Judge Bompas, at dinner, and a most agreeable causeur he was. —  Bardell v. Pickwick
• Since then, it is whispered, it has become the special function of an adjutant, when the occasion demands it, diplomatically and gently to withdraw the imperial _causeur_ from too absorbing conversation. —  William of Germany
• Quincey, Coleridge, Sydney Smith, and Leigh Hunt, introduced a simpler, easier tone of the well-bred _causeur_, as free from classical mannerism as it was free from subtle mechanism or epigrammatic brilliance. —  Studies in Early Victorian Literature

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