bastide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.95 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A new town built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Example Sentences
- "This gorgeous, well-restored eighteenth-century bastide is close to perfection. Nathalie runs the house as a brilliant mix of home and guest-wing."
- "Special circumstances or special men have called it into brief activity. The ‘bastides’ and the ‘villes neuves’ of thirteenth-century France were founded at a particular period and under special circumstances, and, brief as the period was and governed by military urgencies, they were laid out on a more or less definite plan (p. 143)."
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