Citations:gyneconome

Ancient Greek civil servant whose job was to apply sumptuary laws and ensure adult women behaved morally

 * 1600s,, Wits Theater of the Little World (1971 edition, ISBN 9022103595, page 94:
 * The Athenians had theyr Gyneconomes, the Romaines their Censors,
 * 1859 May, The Journal of Education for Upper Canada, page 72:
 * It then proceeds to regulate the transmission or collation of certain mysterious objects; the kind of crown the initiated are to wear, their dress, the oath of the gyneconome, or female who had the women under her direction,
 * 1956, A History of Education in Antiquity, page 388:
 * But the edict promulgated in Magnesia in 196 B.C. with regard to the festivals in honour of Zeus Sosipolis gives the gyneconomes exactly the same rôle as the pedonomes,