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Bayeux.

A town in Calvados department, Normandy, France; noted for the Bayeux Tapestry.

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name/baɪˈjɜː//baɪˈjuː/
  1. A town in Calvados department, Normandy, France; noted for the Bayeux Tapestry.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French Bayeux, from Old French Baios, Baieus, from Late Latin Baiocae, from Latin Baiocassī, from Gaulish *Bodiocasses (a tribe name, literally “blond curls”) (compare Old Irish buidechass). Compare the surrounding region of Bessin (Old French Beissin), from Late Latin (pagus) Baiocassīnus.

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