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Definition of Free-and-easy
1. Adjective. Natural and unstudied. "Lectured in a free-and-easy style"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free-and-easy
Literary usage of Free-and-easy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1895)
"Advancing with an alert step, and free and easy air, he threw the buck on the
ground, and, without waiting for an invitation, seated himself at their mess, ..."
2. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"The Uninvited Guest—Free and Easy Manners- Salutary Jokes—A Prodigal Son—Exit
... Advancing with an alert step, and free and easy air, he threw the buck on ..."
3. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, William Nemos, Frances Fuller Victor (1890)
"... DESIRED BY THE free-and-easy RULING FOREIGNERS—LICENSE VERSUS LIBERTY—ATTITUDE
OF KEARNEY AND HIS WORKINGMEN'S PARTY—ACTS OF THE CONVENTION—PROVISIONS ..."
4. The Theological and Literary Journal (1856)
"And if the free and easy political ethics described by Scott as the "good old
rule"— " That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can," ..."
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