1. libre - Noun
2. libre - Adjective
(obsolete, rare) Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
(software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge. [from late 20th c.]
(historical) Not enslaved (of a black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans).
libre (plural libres)
(historical) A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant.. Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre. Richard Aldington
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. Ezra Pound
There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models but none seemed to suitably express that kind of impression.. until I came to read French vers libre which seemed to eactly fitr the case. T. E. Hulme
I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies. Daniel Alarcon
The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre. F. S. Flint
A few weeks after the West Wing meeting, on a freezing afternoon two days before the spending-bill deadline, Libre and Americans for Prosperity held a news conference on the House Triangle facing the Capitol’s dome. Source: Internet