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.

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Bayeux

/ (French 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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