Definition of Bastides

1. bastide [n] - See also: bastide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastides

bastardry
bastards
bastardsword
bastardswords
bastardy
bastardy bond
bastardy bonds
bastardy proceeding
baste
basted
bastegh
baster
basters
bastes
bastide
bastides (current term)
bastile
bastiles
bastille
bastilles
bastillion
bastillions
bastinade
bastinaded
bastinades
bastinading
bastinado
bastinadoed
bastinadoes
bastinadoing

Literary usage of Bastides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Deserts of Southern France: An Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk by Sabine Baring-Gould (1894)
"ONE of the peculiar features of Guyenne is the bastides. ... Another remarkable feature of the bastides is, that they sprang into existence at once: they ..."

2. The Companions of Columbus by Washington Irving (1831)
"DIEGO DE LEPE AND RODRIGO DE bastides.—(1500.) NOTWITHSTANDING the hardships and disasters that had beset the voyagers to the New World, and the penury in ..."

3. Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England from Edward I. to Richard II. by John Henry Parker (1853)
"... and applied it to practical use. that, notwithstanding the popular name The earliest of the English bastides is of " Villes Anglaises," these regular ..."

4. The River and the Desart: Or, Recollections of the Rhone and the Chartreuse by Pardoe (Julia), Miss Pardoe (1838)
"... View—Fondness of the Marseillaise for their bastides. Belle de Mai. THE Chateau Sorely is, and deserves to be, the pride and boast of Marseilles. ..."

5. Gleanings from Piccadilly to Peru by John W. Oldmixon (1854)
"MARSEILLES ITS bastides AND CABANONS. COMMERCE.—POI.ICE COURTS. THE PEOPLE. THE COUNTRY. — TOULON. — TUE DOCKYARD AND PORT. LAST days of November. ..."

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