klatsch
\ klahch, klach \, noun;
1.a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch .
Quotes:
Qwilleran next went to Lois's Luncheonette for the mid-morning coffee klatsch , where caffeine addicts and assorted loafers met to exchange opinions and rumors about current events.
-- Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Robbed a Bank , 2000
Throughout the meal, he experienced a disorienting and rather emasculating feeling of being subsumed by a klatch of gabbing women.
-- Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. , 2013
Origin:
Klatsch comes from the German word of the same spelling meaning "gossip." It entered English in the 1950s.
