locutory

[ lok-yuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

noun

, plural loc·u·to·ries.

1. locutorium.

Word History and Origins

Origin of locutory¹

1475–85; < Medieval Latin locūtōrium, equivalent to locū-, base of loquī to speak + -tōrium -tory ²

Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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A door in the last bay leads to the Choir School; this was formerly the Locutory, where the monks indulged in their daily gossip.

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So came she to the grate that they call, I believe, the locutory, and after their holy watchword spoken on both sides, after the manner used in that place, each took the other by the tip of the finger, for no hand could be shaken through the grate.

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