Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- Pertaining to or producing speech.
Wiktionary
- n. A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
Examples
“He made also the tablet for the locutory in the chapel of St. Anne, towards the west.”
“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.”
“I strongly recommend you not to allow any stranger to eat in the locutory.”
“After, he brought him into the parlour or locutory, and demanded him whereof he tempted the brethren there.”
“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.”
“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 ….”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘locutory’.
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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
scullery, suite, porch, screened porch, breakfast room, atheneum, attic, hall, dressing room, passageway, corridor, fusuma and 126 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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participation
parade, pare, parlay, parry, parure, apparatus, apparel, comprador, disparate, emperor, imperative, imperator and 86 more...
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purefoppery's Words
contrariwise, flagellum, barbiturate, spheroid, prolate, probate, acetate, perturbatrix, tortfeasor, locutory
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