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English Dictionary: locution by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
locution
n
  1. a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression"
    Synonym(s): saying, expression, 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.
      [bd] Stumbling locutions.[b8] --G. Eliot.
  
               I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases
               forced by ceremony.                                 --Marston.
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