Fraktur

[ frahk-toor ]

noun
  1. Printing. German black-letter text, a style of type.

  2. (usually lowercase)Also frac·tur .

    • a stylized, highly decorative watercolor or watercolor-and-ink painting in the Pennsylvania-German tradition, often bearing elaborate calligraphy and standardized motifs, as birds, tulips, mermaids, and unicorns, and typically appearing on a book page, baptismal certificate or other family record, or merchant's advertisement.

    • the elaborate calligraphy used in frakturs.

Origin of Fraktur

1
1900–05, Americanism;<German <Latin frāctūra “action of breaking” (in reference to the curlicues that broke up the continuous line of a word). See fracture

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Fraktur

/ (German frakˈtuːr) /


noun
  1. a style of typeface, formerly used in German typesetting for many printed works

Origin of Fraktur

1
German, from Latin fractūra a breaking, fracture; from the curlicues that seem to interrupt the continuous line of a word

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