Gyn`ae*ce"um (?), Gyn`ae*ci"um (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. women's apartments, fr. a woman.]

The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women.

[Written also gyneceum, gynecium.]

Tennyson.

 

© Webster 1913.

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