Bayeux tapestry

[ bey-yoo, bah-; French ba-yœ ]

noun

1. a strip of embroidered linen 231 feet (70 meters) long and 20 inches (50 centimeters) wide, depicting the Norman conquest of England and dating from around 1100.

Bayeux tapestry

noun

1. an 11th- or 12th-century embroidery in Bayeux, nearly 70.5 m (231 ft) long by 50 cm (20 inches) high, depicting the Norman conquest of England

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bayeux tapestry¹

After Bayeux, France, the town in which it was made

Example Sentences

Another exhibit, dubbed a modern day Bayeux Tapestry, tells the story of the war-time landings in 80 woollen panels at the resort's Holy Trinity Church.

From BBC

Prof Julian Richards, from the University of York, who co-directed the excavations, said: "The Bayeux Tapestry depicts Norman cavalry disembarking horses from their fleet but this is the first scientific demonstration that Viking warriors were transporting horses to England 200 years earlier."

From BBC

From his New England perch, Freddy narrates hilarious, cinematic scenes that include affectionate if campy portraits of Arthur: “Look at his thinning hair wind-whipped into the stiff peak of a blond meringue, his delicate lips, sharpened nose, and elongated chin recalling Viking invaders of the Bayeux Tapestry, as white as a white man can get.”

From Seattle Times

If you stapled them end-to-end, you’d get a Bayeux Tapestry of the postwar underground.

From New York Times

He said: "The viewer will walk past it like the Bayeux Tapestry, and I hope they will experience in one picture the year in Normandy."

From BBC