Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small fortified building, often of timber, corresponding nearly to a modern blockhouse.
- noun A temporary or movable hut or, tower erected for besieging purposes. See
bastile , 4. - noun A small farm-house or country dwelling in the south of France, especially in the neighborhood of Marseilles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
mansion inProvence - noun new
town built in medievalLanguedoc ,Gascony andAquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bastide.
Examples
-
While Manou's bastide is on an expansive plot of farmland, it is still part of a tiny Provençal hamlet.
-
While Manou's bastide is on an expansive plot of farmland, it is still part of a tiny Provençal hamlet.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
-
While Manou's bastide is on an expansive plot of farmland, it is still part of a tiny Provençal hamlet.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
-
Another nearby option, set back on a lush hilltop near Apt, the recently-opened La Coquillade, is an eco-friendly 28-room neo-Provencal bastide with sleekly-designed spacious rooms the split-level "honeymooner's" suite has its own pool and hammam, built on a 30-hectare vineyard with an ultra-modern wine cellar, Caves Aureto.
Coasting High in Provence Lanie Goodman 2011
-
In the sleepy outskirts of Lorgues (southeast France) I park next to an open barn, leaving my parapluie* in the car before walking through a gentle rain, down the slippery moss-covered path to an old bastide* where an English painter and chef has built her nid d'amour* in one 'branch' of an old rectangular maison.
-
In the sleepy outskirts of Lorgues (southeast France) I park next to an open barn, leaving my parapluie* in the car before walking through a gentle rain, down the slippery moss-covered path to an old bastide* where an English painter and chef has built her nid d'amour* in one 'branch' of an old rectangular maison.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
-
In the sleepy outskirts of Lorgues (southeast France) I park next to an open barn, leaving my parapluie* in the car before walking through a gentle rain, down the slippery moss-covered path to an old bastide* where an English painter and chef has built her nid d'amour* in one 'branch' of an old rectangular maison.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
-
If you need a place to stay, try the Bastide Saint Mathieu, a converted farmhouse on the edge of town, for Old World elegance (hotel-bastide-saint-mathieu-grasse. cote.azur.fr/).
The Good Life 2007
-
* A few of the women flipped through photos of Manou's bastide, * observing its before and after transformation.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
-
Inside the three-story bastide (in the salon*), Manou's husband had knocked down a cloison* and brought in a giant stone fireplace.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
qms commented on the word bastide
A taste for the market stampede
And years in the bourse may well lead
To regal facility
For rustic gentility
At the court of your summer bastide.
June 25, 2018