Fraktur
Printing. German black-letter text, a style of type.
(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
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How to use Fraktur in a sentence
Then he gives the fractur, or black-letter characters, with some elaborate and beautiful capitals.
British Dictionary definitions for Fraktur
/ (German frakˈtuːr) /
a style of typeface, formerly used in German typesetting for many printed works
Origin of Fraktur
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