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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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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.

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