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bastide
[ ba-steed ]
/ bæˈstid /
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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
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