bastide
Americannoun
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a medieval fortified town, planned as a whole and built at one time, especially in southern France, for strategic or commercial purposes.
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a small country house in southern France.
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; see baste 1) + -da < Latin -ta feminine past participle suffix
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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 Henry Charles Lea
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 Francis W. Blagdon
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 Edward Harrison Barker
The name Castelsarrasin appears in the 13th century, when the village of Villelongue was replaced by the present bastide.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Looking from the Chateau de Notre Dame de la Garde, it would seem as if there was a bastide for every arpent.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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