found: Work cat.: Bentley, J. Fort towns of France : the bastides of the Dordogne & Aquitaine, c1993.
found: Dubourg, J. Histoire des bastides : les villes neuves du Moyen Aĝe, c2002.
found: Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2006(bastide; type of village or town built largely in the 13th and 14th centuries in England and Gascony and laid out according to a definite geometric plan)
found: Art & Architecture Thesaurus online, 4 Apr. 2006(bastides; use for Medieval planned settlements built for defense and often laid out on an orthogonal grid)
found: Webster's unabridged, 31 Mar. 2006(bastide; 1: a village or town in medieval France built esp. for defense and usu. laid out according to a definite geometric plan; 2: a small country house in the south of France)
