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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of northwest France northwest of Caen near the English Channel. The famed Bayeux tapestry, housed in a museum here, depicts incidents in the Norman Conquest (1066).
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- proper noun A town in northern
Normandy ,France ; noted for the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Examples
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If you painted a vast tapestry of Tea Party adherents -- the famous tapestry in Bayeux, France, (which was also about conquest) comes to mind -- you would fill your canvas with aging and angry white people.
George Mitrovich: Is That All There Is? George Mitrovich 2010
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If you painted a vast tapestry of Tea Party adherents -- the famous tapestry in Bayeux, France, (which was also about conquest) comes to mind -- you would fill your canvas with aging and angry white people.
George Mitrovich: Is That All There Is? George Mitrovich 2010
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If you painted a vast tapestry of Tea Party adherents -- the famous tapestry in Bayeux, France, (which was also about conquest) comes to mind -- you would fill your canvas with aging and angry white people.
George Mitrovich: Is That All There Is? George Mitrovich 2010
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We were spending the night in Bayeux and on the way to our hotel we passed a Cafe that advertised American breakfast (bacon and eggs).
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The celebration took place in Bayeux, and I had the privilege of meeting Norman representatives from Guernsey and Jersey, Scotland and Wales, and Canada.
Sweden's Relationship with the British Empire and with Canada in Particular 1944
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Not the one down the road in Bayeux, which is a Commonwealth War Graves cemetery.
Another Normandy invasion Bas Bleu 2009
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YeuxTube (Bayeux, that is) | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
YeuxTube (Bayeux, that is) | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2007
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Not the one down the road in Bayeux, which is a Commonwealth War Graves cemetery.
Archive 2009-05-24 Bas Bleu 2009
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They accordingly left their secret and lonely rendezvous among the mountains one by one, in order to avoid attracting observation, and went to a town called Bayeux, through which they supposed that William would have to pass on his return.
William the Conqueror Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841
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Jetty provides both an asynchronous HTTP server and an asynchronous HTTP client, and therefore supports scalable implementations of both ends of protocols such as Bayeux, XMPP, and Google Wave that are playing a critical role in cloud computing environments.
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