locutory

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

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  1. 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. So came she to the grate that they cal (I trowe) locutorye. Sir T. More, Works, p. 1170.
  2. Pertaining to or producing speech.

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  • He made also the tablet for the locutory in the chapel of St. Anne, towards the west. —  Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
  • Ere De Lacy could reply to her arguments the Abbess rose, and, pleading her total inability to give counsel in secular affairs, and the rules of her order, which called her, as she said, with a heightened colour and raised voice, "to the simple and peaceful discharge of her conventual duties," she left the betrothed parties in the locutory, or parlour, without any company, save —  The Betrothed
  • 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
  • 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
 

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese Italian locutorio, from Middle Latin locutorium, a room for conversation in a monastery, from Late Latin locutor, a speaker, from Latin loqui, past participle locutus, speak: see locution.
 

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