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What is a gynaeceum?

What is a gynaeceum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) The women's quarters in a household, especially of ancient Greece or Rome.
  2. (obsolete) Establishment in Rome where female workers made clothing and furniture for royalty.
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While the king was falling on the ground, the inmates of gynaeceum wept, raising their hands in distress.
It will be seen that Hill relied much on the characters of the corolla and the gynaeceum.
If the gynaeceum was a means of protection from the outside, male gaze, it was at the same time, a space specially designed for gaze as contemplation in silence.
The northern compartment of the gynaeceum connects with the gynaeceum of the north church.
Sometimes there was in the gynaeceum a personage even more exalted than any which have as yet been mentioned.
Above each narthex is a gynaeceum, which was for the use of women only.

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