Definitions for bastide

bastide bas·tide

Spelling: [ba-steed]
IPA: /bæˈstid/

Bastide is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in bastide (abdeist).

Definitions for bastide

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.

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 baste1<

Examples for bastide

She told me that there could not be a worthier, honester, better man, than bastide.

The technical name for the small forts which the English gradually erected round Orleans is bastide.

(p. 244) bastide, one of the staff, became Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The name Castelsarrasin appears in the 13th century, when the village of Villelongue was replaced by the present bastide.

I am leaving this place in an hour, to occupy a country-house (bastide) about a mile away.

bastide makes a more honest attempt to support his own statement that Talleyrand gained thirty millions during three years.

Each gate of the new wall was defended by a kind of fortress called a bastide or Bastille.

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

A single house outside the walls of a town was also called a bastide.

Who would have thought that it was bastide who should eventually induce the Assembly to make up its mind?

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