Bayeux tapestry
a strip of embroidered linen 231 feet (70 meters) long and 20 inches (50 cm) wide, depicting the Norman conquest of England and dating from c1100.
Historical Examples
What can you discover about the Normans from the pictures of the Bayeux tapestry?
Britain in the Middle Ages Florence L. Bowman
Mention should also be made of the wonderful Bayeux tapestry.
Quilts Marie D. Webster
A picture of the comet on this occasion forms a quaint feature in the Bayeux tapestry.
The Story of the Heavens Robert Stawell Ball
Many of them were decorated (according to the Bayeux tapestry).
A Handbook of Pictorial History Henry W. Donald
The ventayle; Used here for the nasale or nose-piece shown in the Bayeux tapestry.
The Visions of England Francis T. Palgrave
This arrangement of lines is very common on the Bayeux tapestry.
Armour & Weapons Charles John Ffoulkes
But if the Bayeux tapestry be correct, the fury of the fight for the standard would be explained.
Hereward, The Last of the English Charles Kingsley
Harold’s election and coronation, from the Bayeux tapestry, p. 99.
The Chronicle of the Norman Conquest Master Wace
This is precisely the method used in the Bayeux tapestry and other antique embroideries.
Child Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle
The Bayeux tapestry shows the two types in use, the heavy type being used to fell trees and the lighter for fighting.
The Bronze Age in Ireland George Coffey
noun
an 11th- or 12th-century embroidery in Bayeux, nearly 70.5 m (231 ft) long by 50 cm (20 inches) high, depicting the Norman conquest of England
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