Bayeux

[ bahy-yoo; French ba-yœ ]

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.

Bayeux

/ 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)

Example Sentences

A few miles south of the city of Bayeux is one of the smallest cemeteries.

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In 1822 this "deserted woman" had lived for three years in the most rigid seclusion at Courcelles near Bayeux.

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In 1822 a Marquis de Champignelles was the head of the leading house of the country at Bayeux.

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That there were Saxons at Bayeux in the tenth century is asserted by express evidence.

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A merchant of Bayeux, taken captive by the Saracens, invoked her: his fetters fell off, and he escaped.

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Thus are Harold and his attendants represented, in the famous tapestry of Bayeux.

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