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What is a bastide?

What is a bastide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A mansion in Provence.
  2. new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
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The bastide, or castle town, although not large, is still significant to political and administrative life.
Who would have thought that it was bastide who should eventually induce the Assembly to make up its mind?
Each gate of the new wall was defended by a kind of fortress called a bastide or Bastille.
She told me that there could not be a worthier, honester, better man, than bastide.
Alain Giraud, former Bastide chef, is back, this time with Anisette, his recently opened French brasserie inside the Santa Monica clock tower building.
The name Castelsarrasin appears in the 13th century, when the village of Villelongue was replaced by the present bastide.

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