bastide
bastide noun: a mansion in Provence.
Noun
bastide (plural bastides)
- A mansion in Provence.
- This gorgeous, well-restored eighteenth-century bastide is close to perfection. Nathalie runs the house as a brilliant mix of home and guest-wing.2003 March 16, Alastair Sawday, “Scent from heaven”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2014
- A new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
- 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...1913, Francis J. Haverfield, Ancient Town-Planning, Oxford University Press
Forms of bastide
| plural | bastides |
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Origin of bastide
Borrowed from French bastide, from Occitan.
Questions about bastide
- What does bastide mean?
- Bastide means a mansion in Provence.
- What part of speech is bastide?
- Bastide is a noun.
- What is the plural of bastide?
- The plural of bastide is bastides.
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