bastide
English
Etymology
Noun
bastide (plural bastides)
- A mansion in Provence.
- One well-known bastide in Provence is the Bastide Neuve, located in the village of La Treille near Marseille, which was a summer house for the family of French writer and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.
- new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
- Bastides began to appear in numbers under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1229), which permitted Raymond VII of Toulouse to build new towns in his shattered domains, though not to fortify them.
Translations
mansion in Provence
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new town in Provence
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Occitan bastida, past participle of bastir, cognate with French bâtir. Compare with bâtisse
Noun
bastide f (plural bastides)
- mansion in Provence
- Les mas diffèrent des bastides qui étaient pour la bourgeoisie.
- new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
- Les bastides furent toutes fondées d'un seul jet, sur un plan préconçu, généralement uniforme, et cela dans la période d'une centaine d'années (1250-1350).
References
- “bastide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “bastide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.