gynaecium

Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments

In Greek archaeology, that part of a large dwelling which is devoted to the women, hence, the family rooms as distinguished from the more public rooms where the master and his soldiers or male dependents commonly lived. 2. In modern times a harem; the living place of the women in a dwelling of any nation or epoch. 3. In ecclesiology, that part of a church occupied by women to the exclusion of men, as in early Christian practice, and still to a certain extent in the East. (Jones, 1992)