Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast Corsica, France, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is a commercial and tourist center.
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- proper noun A town and port in northern
Corsica , and capital of the department of Haute-Corse
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Examples
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"Your Bastia, my good Clément," he said to the host, who invariably came to the dining-room with the roast and solicited the opinion of each guest upon the dinner in a few tactful, easy words -- "your Bastia is a sad place."
The Isle of Unrest Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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Instead they conducted a fighting withdrawal to the northern town of Bastia, where ships evacuated the force to the Italian mainland on October 4.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Instead they conducted a fighting withdrawal to the northern town of Bastia, where ships evacuated the force to the Italian mainland on October 4.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Donovan had his own PT boat, which zipped him back and forth from Anzio to the OSS station in Bastia, where he wolfed down flapjacks and bacon in the dining hall with his men in the morning and sang Irish songs with them in the evening by a fireplace.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Stade du Ray, Nice "The Stade du Ray is built in the middle of the city and its obsolete architecture - no roof, low stands - makes it very convenient for the neighbours," notes René Dumont, whose link, a gallery of match between Bastia and Marseille at the stadium in 1971, is well worth a click.
Has a league ever finished in alphabetical order? | The Knowledge 2011
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Donovan had his own PT boat, which zipped him back and forth from Anzio to the OSS station in Bastia, where he wolfed down flapjacks and bacon in the dining hall with his men in the morning and sang Irish songs with them in the evening by a fireplace.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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We took a quick EasyJet flight to Bastia, hopped in our rental car, and made a beeline for Calvi.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Chilling in Corsica, Part 1 2010
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One of our favorite stops in Bastia was the Cap Corse store.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Chilling in Corsica, Part 3 2010
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L.W. became a little cranky about riding on the slow mountain roads, but when we arrived at our lovely Hotel Pietracap outside of Bastia, he perked up.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Chilling in Corsica, Part 3 2010
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Shouting matches in boardrooms were accompanied by shoving matches on pitches, as brawls broke out at pre-season friendlies between Cagliari and Bastia, Catania and Iraklis then Brescia and Larissa.
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