Hypertext Webster Gateway: "locution"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Locution \Lo*cu"tion\, n. [L. locutio, fr. loqui to speak: cf.
F. locution. ]
Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
`` Stumbling locutions.'' --G. Eliot.
I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases
forced by ceremony. --Marston.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
locution
n : a word or phrase that particular people use in particular
situations; "pardon the expression" [syn: {saying}, {expression}]
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