Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Locution

Locution (lo*kū"shun) , noun

[Latin locutio, from loqui to speak: compare French 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