Bayeux

[ bahy-yoo; French ba-yœ ]

/ baɪˈyu; French baˈyœ /

noun

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.

Example sentences from the Web for bayeux

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

The Deadly Trap Behind D-Day’s Beaches |Clive Irving |June 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Before Bayeux palled she was carried off to Luc-sur-Mer, the canon going too, also in the care of madame his niece.

The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax |Harriet Parr
It is like appealing to the Bayeux Tapestry from the later accounts of the battle of Senlac.

Studies of Travel - Greece |Edward A. Freeman
In 1840 it was restored and relined, and is now in the Hôtel de Ville at Bayeux!

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework |Emily Leigh Lowes

The camp soon afterwards broke up, and the troops took their way to Bayeux.

Harold, Complete |Edward Bulwer-Lytton
We must remember that he was not the son of Gisla the king's sister, however, but of Popa of Bayeux.

The Normans |Sarah Orne Jewett

British Dictionary definitions for bayeux

Bayeux

/ (French bajø) /

noun

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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