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.

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  • noun mansion in Provence
  • noun new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

Etymologies

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From French bastide

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Examples

  • While Manou's bastide is on an expansive plot of farmland, it is still part of a tiny Provençal hamlet.

    le coude - 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

  • 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.

    frotter - 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

  • 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

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  • 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