"freehanded" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1995, Dennis Hirota, Wind in the pines: classic writings of the way of tea as a Buddhist path, page 343",
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          "ref": "1994, Roxana Stuart, Stage Blood: Vampires of the 19th Century Stage, page 91",
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