Bayeux tapestry
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Bayeux tapestry
After Bayeux, France, the town in which it was made
Example Sentences
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Cullinan said they "send and receive thousands of loans each year - including ancient frescoes and textiles which are older than the Bayeux tapestry".
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
Yet any attempt to twist the Bayeux tapestry into petty patriotism looks desperate and doomed.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2018
She created something new in the world of contemporary biography, writing the life stories and afterlives of iconic works of art such as the Bayeux tapestry and the stained-glass windows of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2010
Men did not make the Bayeux tapestry, or embroider the gold-worked opus Anglicanum chasubles that were among the supreme glories of medieval art.
From Time Magazine Archive
The architectural part of these two embroideries, i.e. the canopy work, resembles that of the Bayeux tapestry.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
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