Bayeux

American  

[bahy-yoo, ba-yœ] / baɪˈju, baˈjœ /

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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Bayeux

Professor Michael Lewis, curator of the museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, first suggested back in 2013 it should come to Britain after he realised the Bayeux museum would need to close for renovation.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Osborne praised the "French and British experts" who transported the tapestry from Bayeux Museum in Normandy to London.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

"It's been very special to have witnessed the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry, and especially for it to be back on these shores for the first time in probably a thousand years," added Cullinan.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron had earlier posted a photograph of an image of the Bayeux Tapestry which the British Museum had projected on to the white cliffs of Dover.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

The comet was duly noted in a newspaper of the time, the Bayeux Tapestry.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan