bastide

American  

[ba-steed] / bæˈstid /

noun

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

2. a small country house in southern France.

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Etymology

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; baste ¹ ) + -da < Latin -ta feminine past participle suffix

Example Sentences

I was up with them through every night at this time; and it was an odd life in the little desolate bastide, as it was long impossible to procure help.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Cordes, which covers the summit and slopes of an isolated hill, was a bastide founded by Raymond VII., count of Toulouse, in the first half of the 13th century.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

Chromate of iron, near Gassin, in the department of Le Var, at the bastide of the cascade.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

His farm or bastide was subjected to the same minuteness of seizure.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

Not a few of them keep the name of La bastide, in combination with some other to this day.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Barker, Edward Harrison