bastide

English

Borrowed from French bastide, from Occitan.

bastide (plural bastides)

A mansion in Provence.
- 2003 March 16, Alastair Sawday, “Scent from heaven”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 September 2014:
  This gorgeous, well-restored eighteenth-century bastide is close to perfection. Nathalie runs the house as a brilliant mix of home and guest-wing.
(historical) A new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
- 1913, Francis J. Haverfield, Ancient Town-Planning‎^[2], Oxford University Press:
  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).

mansion in Provence

new town in Provence

Borrowed from Occitan bastida, past participle of bastir, cognate with French bâtir. Doublet of bâtie. Compare with bâtisse.

bastide f (plural bastides)

bastide (mansion in Provence)
- 1920, Frédéric Mistral, Mes Origines‎^[3]:
  La vieille bastide où je naquis, en face des Alpilles, touchant le Clos-Créma, avait nom le Mas du Juge, un tènement de quatre paires de bêtes de labour, avec son premier charretier, ses valets de charrue, son pâtre, sa servante (que nous appelions la tante) et plus ou moins d'hommes au mois, de journaliers ou journalières, qui venaient aider au travail, soit pour les vers à soie, pour les sarclages, pour les foins, pour les moissons ou les vendanges, soit pour la saison des semailles ou celles de l'olivaison.
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(historical) bastide (new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries)

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