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bas⋅tide

  [ba-steed]
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1. a medieval fortified town, planned as a whole and built at one time, esp. in southern France, for strategic or commercial purposes.
2. a small country house in southern France.
Origin:
1515–25; < MF < OPr bastida fortification, n. use of fem. ptp. of bastir to build, equiv. to basti- (< Gmc; see baste 1 ) + -da < L -ta fem. ptp. suffix
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bastide

type of village or town built largely in the 13th and 14th centuries in England and Gascony and laid out according to a definite geometric plan. It is thought by some to have been an influence on English colonists when building such New World settlements as New Haven, Conn

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