Definition of "causerie" [cause•rie]

• An informal discussion or chat, especially of an intellectual nature. (noun)
• A short conversational piece of writing or criticism. (noun)

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• "It was their custom to meet once a week, at the house of one or another, for a "causerie," as the avocat called it."
• ""causerie" which meditates more broadly on the novelist's life, and on his relations with contemporary writers."
• "A.J. P. Taylor's causerie on Irish history, "A Very Special Case" [NYR, J.ly 28], is an indication that Englishmen should not write on Irish subjects because of an."