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bastide
[ ba-steed ]
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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Example Sentences
The technical name for the small forts which the English gradually erected round Orleans is bastide.
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I went to Monsieur Bastide, he who proposed the scheme for ten thousand livres a-year.
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I am leaving this place in an hour, to occupy a country-house (bastide) about a mile away.
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But as he was then a détenu at Clairvaux, Bastide and Littré filled the editorial chair during the interregnum.
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In the middle of the plain we came to a small village called Bastide-Murat.
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