Definition of "locutory" []

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

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• "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."