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‖ causerie|kozəri, kozri|
[Fr., f. causer to talk, ad. L. causārī to plead, dispute, f. causa cause n.]
Informal talk or discussion, esp. on literary topics; also, a chatty article or paragraph.
1827Edin. Rev. Oct. 386 The volume which has been the innocent cause of all this causerie. 1841C'tess Blessington Idler in France I. 269 The lively causerie of the habitués de maison supersedes the constraint of ceremony. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto i. xvi. 154 He was specially polite... There was an intimate, tender tone about these causeries. 1903A. Bennett Truth about Author v. 65 Men who can come fresh to a pile of new books..and write a fifteen-hundred-word causerie on them. 1957Times 31 Oct. 13/4 The very word causerie is like a bell whose sound may grate harshly upon the ear of the Higher Critic. |