The Collaborative International Dictionary
Locutory \Loc"u*to*ry\ (l[o^]k"[-u]*t[-o]*r[y^]), n. A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
Wiktionary
n. A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
Usage examples of "locutory".
After taking their vows of poverty, silence, and chastity, their only communication with the outside world was a rare visit held in the locutory where wooden jalousies admitted voices but not light.
The locutory was situated next to the turnstile gate, and its use was regulated, restricted, and always required the presence of a chaperone.
For four long years she had been the only prisoner, with no right to receive visits in the locutory or hear Sunday Mass in the chapel.
Both were content when they said good-bye in the locutory, and neither could imagine they would never see each other again.
More than once he visited the locutories of nunneries, to deliver through the heavy gratings presents from Don Rafael to certain black and white shadows, which attracted by this sturdy young country boy, and aware that he meant to be a painter, overwhelmed him with the eager questions born of their seclusion.
After taking their vows of poverty, silence, and chastity, their only communication with the outside world was a rare visit held in the locutory where wooden jalousies admitted voices but not light.
A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress and which was heard all over the house, indicated by its variations, which were a kind of acoustic telegraph, all the acts of material life to be performed, and called to the locutory, if need were, this or that inhabitant of the house.