Bayeux Tapestry Definition

bāyo͝o; Fr bȧyö
noun
An embroidered length of linen, 231 feet (70 m) long and 1912 inches (51 cm) wide, probably of the 11th cent., in the museum of Bayeux, in NW France, picturing incidents of the Norman conquest and events leading up to it.
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Bayeux Tapestry Sentence Examples

  • The museum contains the celebrated Bayeux tapestry (see below).

  • He rebuilt the cathedral of his see, and may perhaps have commissioned the unknown artist of the celebrated Bayeux tapestry.

  • The Bayeux tapestry affords, however, valuable contemporary evidence, and there are some facts related by eye-witnesses in the works of William of Poitiers and William of Jumiges.

  • Discover a full-scale replica of the Bayeux Tapestry or a reconstruction of an Iron Age House.

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