free-formadj.n.

1942 Long Beach (Calif.) Independent 6 Dec. 29/2 Norman Rosten and Robert Tallman have written the free-form drama from material furnished by Sandburg himself.

1947 Times Record (Troy, N.Y.) 28 Aug. 9/5 Rugs range from soft to bright hues, in the new ‘free-form’ or ‘woggle’ shapes.

1960 M. Millar Stranger in my Grave xv. 161 A half-finished free-form table which Jim was making.

1969 Managem. Sci. 16 B56 The corporation of the future will be far more ‘free form’ than we have known in the past.

1990 B. Neal Biscuits, Spoonbread, & Sweet Potato Pie v. 104 Muffins are essentially free-form crumpets, but the batter is heavier.

2004 N.Y. Mag. 14 June 153/2 A live band..induces diners to take to the aisles and practice the type of free-form dancing you might have seen at a Phish concert.

1956 N. Mailer Man who studied Yoga in New Short Novels 2 7 Sam resents..the slender coffee table, a free-form poised like a spider on wire legs.

1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 75/4 The 100 or so shacks, domes, and other structures, freeforms dictated by imagination.

2001 Building Design (Nexis) 20 Apr. 21 He feels that these freeforms are so evocative and so conceptually loose that we all project our own fantasies on them.