Bastide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bastide is a noun meaning A mansion in Provence.
Meaning
A mansion in Provence.
More Meanings
- (historical) A new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Example Sentences
This gorgeous, well-restored eighteenth-century bastide is close to perfection. Nathalie runs the house as a brilliant mix of home and guest-wing.
Special circumstances or special men have called it into brief activity. The ‘bastides’ and the ‘villes neuves’ of thirteenth-century France were founded at a particular period and under special circumstances, and, brief as the period was and governed by military urgencies, they were laid out on a more or less definite plan (p. 143).
Word Forms
- bastides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hotel, villanette, chateau, fougasse, domaine, habitation.
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