libre
A free black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New OrleansA free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
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Meaning
1 senses(historical)A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:libre.
Examples
7 sentencesLibre and gratis are two different things.
This software is libre.
Tom is into lucha libre.
A Cuba Libre is a cocktail with a rum base.
ruКуба либре - коктейль на основе рома. — fjay69
I'm at the Libre Software Meeting to present the Tatoeba project.
ruЯ нахожусь на встрече "Libre Software Meeting", чтобы представить проект Tatoeba. — Biga
Origin
The obsolete “unconstrained” sense is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty”; “free” asThe obsolete “unconstrained” sense is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty”; “free” as in “clear”, “vacant”, “without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”), whence obsolete English lede (“person(s)”), English leud, and German Leute.
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