The Collaborative International Dictionary
gyneceum
Gynaeceum \Gyn`[ae]*ce"um\ (j[i^]n`[-e]*s[=e]"[u^]m), Gynaecium
\Gyn`[ae]*ci"um\ (j[i^]n`[-e]*s[imac]"[u^]m), n. [L., fr. Gr.
gynaikei^on women's apartments, fr. gynh` a woman.]
That part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively
appropriated to women. [Written also gyneceum, gynecium.]
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
gyneceum
n. (alternative form of gynæceum English)
Usage examples of "gyneceum".
One night, Ianira had fled the gyneceum and its imprisoning "respectability," driven by grief and terror into the night-dark streets of Athens.