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'.