bastide

[ ba-steed ]

/ bæˈstid /

noun

a medieval fortified town, planned as a whole and built at one time, especially in southern France, for strategic or commercial purposes.

a small country house in southern France.

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Origin of bastide

1515–25; < Middle French < Old Provençal bastida fortification, noun use of feminine past participle of bastir to build, equivalent to basti- (< Germanic; see baste¹) + -da < Latin -ta feminine past participle suffix

Examples from the Web for bastide

The technical name for the small forts which the English gradually erected round Orleans is bastide.
Battles of English History|H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George
Who would have thought that it was Bastide who should eventually induce the Assembly to make up its mind?
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville|Alexis De Tocqueville
But as he was then a détenu at Clairvaux, Bastide and Littré filled the editorial chair during the interregnum.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851|Various
The name Castelsarrasin appears in the 13th century, when the village of Villelongue was replaced by the present bastide.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4|Various

(p. 244) Bastide, one of the staff, became Minister for Foreign Affairs.
An Englishman in Paris|Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam