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▪ I. ‖ mas, n.2|mɑs| [Pr.] A farm or cottage in the South of France; a house.
1921English May 495 We see the flocks returning to the ‘mas’ after having spent the long summer in the mountains. 1924R. Fry Let. 2 July (1972) II. 555 Two peasant proprietors who live in a little Mas. 1932R. Campbell Taurine Provence 48 The ‘Mas’ is a mixture between a manor and a huge farm-house. 1942‘A. Bridge’ Frontier Passage xii. 221 The peasant's rough-and-ready method of defending his mas. 1964F. White West of Rhone iv. 51 The mas, the farms, were devoted to stock-raising. 1966‘R. Standish’ Widow Hack vi. 69 The villa was a well-faked mas provençal, but instead of the conventional rounded Roman [roof] tiles, they were flat. ▪ II. mas obs. f. mass n.1, and makes, make v. |