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Meanings of causerie in English
Light informal conversation for social occasions.
Synonyms
Examples for "gossip"
Examples for "gossip"
1
Lanelle gaped for a moment longer; then gossip won out over suspicion.
2
Still, there was bar talk and clerical gossip and talk among spouses.
3
I am long past the point of worrying about gossip and scandal.
4
She has listened to servants' gossip and taken it for the truth.
5
She never grew weary of hearing the latest political news or gossip.
1
Well have a really great old gab some one of these days.
2
We knew well enough that he had the gift of the gab.
3
I didn't mention it to the society because these fellows gab so.
4
He was powerful vain about that gab of his'n, Doctor Kirby was.
5
It was at that moment I knew I had the gift of gab.
1
Nick could tell Pakula was sincere, but not so good at chitchat.
2
Tracy smiled, as if to say the time for chitchat had expired.
3
And it calls for more than just a twenty-minute chitchat between us.
4
He knew where I was headed-disposablechitchat land-andaborted my infield play.
5
If she wanted to do polite chitchat, I was up to it.
1
The pimpled stripling had now given himself up wholeheartedly to social chit-chat.
2
This chit-chat was simply for distraction while he took a peek around.
3
Almost daily he held a little chit-chat with one prisoner or another.
4
There's any amount of chit-chat to get through, apart from serious problems.
5
And now the chit-chat is out of the way, let the madness begin.
1
It's a Sex & The City gabfest between Miranda and Carrie.
2
The appearance will coincide with the final week of the hit gabfest's 14th season.
3
But away from the gluhwein and the gabfest, the real action is slowly revealed.
4
I'll leave you and your jelly-fish Scott to your gabfest.
5
We understand that the gabfest must go on.
1
She said: The key thing I miss out on is small talk.
2
Opinion - Making small talk about the weather is our national obsession.
3
Hundreds of events are engineered to get students past the small talk.
4
After a bit of small talk I asked what everyone was asking.
5
We said hi and made small talk for a minute or two.
1
Do you expect me to allow scandalous tittle-tattle to be spread about Town?
2
The General Here you see the effect of all this tittle-tattle.
3
This, however, is not mere tittle-tattle or tabloid fodder about romance.
4
Herein lies the secret of the avarice and tittle-tattle that poison provincial life.
5
And Minister, here's some juicy tittle-tattle we gathered for you earlier.
1
Tonight, after supper, when your grandfather listens to the wireless, we'll sit in the kitchen and have a good old chin wag.
2
Did some interesting chin wagging with several of our Green Mountain neighbors.
3
'Might I pop in for a chin wag?'
4
Franki Wood with puppet Ho Chin Wag In the first programme Frankie recalled singing for world-renown Australian light opera star Gladys Moncrieff.
5
"We had quite a chin wag about who's brassed off at whom at Widestar Trading."
1
Did some interesting chin wagging with several of our Green Mountain neighbors.
Usage of causerie in English
1
From the grunting of the cave people to the causerie of modern humankind.
2
My causerie is half a column short.
3
However, such reflections will not assist me to finish my causerie, for I wrote them all last week.
4
In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become!
5
I was once booked by my manager to give a causerie in the drawing-room of a New York millionaire.
6
It was their custom to meet once a week, at the house of one or another, for a "causerie," as the avocat called it.
7
There was nothing, he found, like a Causerie du Lundi for settling and soothing the troubled spirits.
Frequent collocations
Causerie through the time