conversazione

[ kon-ver-saht-see-oh-nee; Italian kawn-ver-sah-tsyaw-ne ]

noun

, plural con·ver·sa·zi·o·nes, con·ver·sa·zi·o·ni [kon-ver-saht-see-, oh, -nee, kawn-ve, r, -sah-, tsyaw, -nee].

1. a gathering for conversation and discussion, especially about the arts or literature.

conversazione

/ ˌkɒnvəˌsætsɪˈəʊnɪ; konversatˈtsjone /

noun

1. a social gathering for discussion of the arts, literature, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of conversazione¹

First recorded in 1740–50; from Italian; literally, “conversation, meeting to hold a conversation”; conversation ( def )

Word History and Origins

Origin of conversazione¹

C18: literally: conversation

Example Sentences

Everybody determined that it should make up in brilliance what it lacked in punctuality, and all private conversaziones, routs, and Quadrille parties were, by general consent, postponed.

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He held conversaziones in the servants' hall after dinner, while I slept balmily in front of the drawing-room fire.

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Went to a dinner-party or two, theatres, to hear Dickens read, a concert, conversazione and receptions, seeing English society, or rather one class of it, and liking what I saw.

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You will hear it said at a ladies' working party, "What a shame of the Catholics to take our conversazione night for their concert!"

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After making obeisance to General Dolls, these doggies would form themselves into a conversazione, and go promenading round the rose-trees in twos and twos.

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