Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or producing speech.
  • noun A room for conversation; especially, a place in a monastery where the monks were allowed to converse with those who were not connected with the monastery, when silence was enjoined elsewhere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

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Examples

  • He made also the tablet for the locutory in the chapel of St. Anne, towards the west.

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • It was Ellen Terry's youngest, freshest voice over again, but with the naïvest little ghost of a French accent; and she didn't seem so much to project a phrase at you by the locutory muscles as to smile it to you.

    The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • I strongly recommend you not to allow any stranger to eat in the locutory.

    The Letters of St. Teresa 1902

  • After, he brought him into the parlour or locutory, and demanded him whereof he tempted the brethren there.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • Then he would resume his timid lurking about the locutory, as if preparing one of his robberies, to see his Tonico; and when he could see him for a moment, the sight was enough to extinguish his helpless rage before the full basket of lunch that the evil woman brought to her lover.

    Luna Benamor Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • A scandalized Father Oviedo reports that she stopped writing letters only when she was in the locutory [the convent's visiting room] chatting with vistors ….

    The Mex Files 2009

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