LOCUTORIUM. The monks and other religious in monasteries, after they had dined in their common hall, had a withdrawing-room, where they met and talked together among themselves, which room, for that sociable use and conversation, they called locutorium, or loquendo; as we call such a place in our houses parlor, from the French parler; and they had another room, which was called locutorium forissecum, where they might talk with laymen.