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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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She told me that there could not be a worthier, honester, better man, than bastide.
A single house outside the walls of a town was also called a bastide.
Friday night is the time to visit this bastide town, when stalls sell fresh produce and restaurants serve everyone together on long tables in the street.
The technical name for the small forts which the English gradually erected round Orleans is bastide.
His farm or bastide was subjected to the same minuteness of seizure.
Cordes-sur-Ciel, the first bastide, sits on the top of a mountain and is, thus, aptly named.

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