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

Words nearby bastide

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

How to use bastide in a sentence

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
I went to Monsieur Bastide, he who proposed the scheme for ten thousand livres a-year.
Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume II (of 2)|John Hill Burton
I am leaving this place in an hour, to occupy a country-house (bastide) about a mile away.
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine|Henry Foljambe Hall
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

In the middle of the plain we came to a small village called Bastide-Murat.
Nobody's Boy|Hector Malot