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

Words nearby bastide

baster, bast fiber, basti, Bastia, Bastian, bastide, bastille, Bastille Day, bastinade, bastinado, basting

Example sentences 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

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