Locutory

He made also the tablet for the locutory in the chapel of St. Anne, towards the west. ❋ Frederick Somner Merryweather (N/A)

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. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)

I strongly recommend you not to allow any stranger to eat in the locutory. ❋ Unknown (1902)

After, he brought him into the parlour or locutory, and demanded him whereof he tempted the brethren there. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

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. ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)

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 …. ❋ Unknown (2009)