Meaning & use
Causerie
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An informal conversation or a short, casually written piece, often on a literary or cultural topic.
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The critic's weekly causerie in the newspaper covered everything from theater to gossip.
Over dinner, the guests fell into an easy causerie about art and politics.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from French, where it means 'a chat'; in English it is most associated with informal literary or critical essays.
Words with a similar meaning
chatinformal essay
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