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单词 causerie
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Definition of causerie in English:

causerie

nounPlural causeries kozʀiˈkəʊzəriˌkōzəˈrē
  • An informal article or talk, typically on a literary subject.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Where critics of the older school would bring forth laborious lay sermons, he would trot out a diverting confection of a causerie.
    • More recently, we have the eccentric cameos of Richard Cobb and causeries of A.J.P. Taylor, of which he said they were evidence that he had run out of historical subjects.
    • The man who, in 1920, MacCarthy, under the nom de guerre ‘Affable Hawk’, succeeded as causerie columnist and literary editor of the New Statesman, was John Squire.
    • In causerie we are slipshod with our terminology; in fact, variations in terms and equivocations often lend considerable charm to the conversation.

Origin

French, from causer 'to talk'.

Rhymes

rosary
 
 

Definition of causerie in US English:

causerie

nounˌkōzəˈrē
  • An informal article or talk, typically one on a literary subject.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • More recently, we have the eccentric cameos of Richard Cobb and causeries of A.J.P. Taylor, of which he said they were evidence that he had run out of historical subjects.
    • The man who, in 1920, MacCarthy, under the nom de guerre ‘Affable Hawk’, succeeded as causerie columnist and literary editor of the New Statesman, was John Squire.
    • Where critics of the older school would bring forth laborious lay sermons, he would trot out a diverting confection of a causerie.
    • In causerie we are slipshod with our terminology; in fact, variations in terms and equivocations often lend considerable charm to the conversation.

Origin

French, from causer ‘to talk’.

 
 
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