A single house outside the walls of a town was also called a bastide. |
Each gate of the new wall was defended by a kind of fortress called a bastide or Bastille. |
Who would have thought that it was bastide who should eventually induce the Assembly to make up its mind? |
The Merovingian Franks inherited the concept, followed by the Carolingian French but the later French term was basti or bastide. |
She told me that there could not be a worthier, honester, better man, than bastide. |
The technical name for the small forts which the English gradually erected round Orleans is bastide. |