Bayeux

American  

[bahy-yoo, ba-yœ] / baɪˈyu, baˈyœ /

noun

1. a town in Calvados, N France, in Normandy, near the English Channel: museum displaying the Bayeux tapestry, commemorating the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

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Bayeux British  

/ bajø /

noun

1. a town in NW France, on the River Aure: its museum houses the Bayeux tapestry and there is a 13th-century cathedral: dairy foods, plastic. Pop: 14 961 (1999)

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Example Sentences

It has inspired works from the iconic Bayeux Tapestry to an eight-part BBC drama last year, but Prof Tom Licence, an expert in medieval history and literature at the University of East Anglia, said he has found 19th Century historians missed an important detail.

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It comes amid preparations for the Bayeux Tapestry to go on display at the British Museum, on loan from France, following a historic agreement.

From BBC

Nothing in the Bayeux Tapestry had been found wrong in light of his findings, he said.

From BBC

He said he hoped it would inspire people to see the Bayeux Tapestry while it is in London.

From BBC

At the British Museum, Prof Michael Lewis, curator of the Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition, said Licence had come up with a "fascinating discovery", that Harold took "an easier, more logical, trip south by ship to meet Duke William in battle".

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