Lexicographical Neighbors of Locutories
Literary usage of Locutories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Monachism: Or, Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1843)
"No Claustral could come into the other locutories, without summons from the Abbot
or Prior. There was a forensic Locutory, where Monks and Nuns could ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1834)
"... spacious parlours, or locutories. The Oeci, or saloons, of which, it is stated,
there were several, are defined as banquetting rooms, and were painted ..."
3. Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, Lady A C Bickley, Mrs Alice Bertha Merck Gomme (1904)
"... and also several sleeping-rooms (" thalami") in connection with it, as an
hostelry. This hall, he says, was furnished with locutories ..."
4. The Cathedral Church of Worcester: A Description of the Fabric and a Brief by Edward Fairbrother Strange (1900)
"It was therefore one of those locutories or places in which the monks were
permitted to converse or hold intercourse with strangers, of which there were ..."
5. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1868)
"... through which the rain-water aqueduct enters under the passage. The inscription
indicates that it was one of the places termed "parlors" or "locutories ..."
6. Transactions by Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1890)
"He also speaks of the " locutories, the Prior's chamber and lodgings, the refectory—
which was wainscoted, ..."
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