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Fraktur
[ frahk-toor ]
noun
- Printing. German black-letter text, a style of type.
- (usually lowercase) Also fractur.
- 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.
Fraktur
/ frakˈtuːr /
noun
- a style of typeface, formerly used in German typesetting for many printed works
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Fraktur1
German, from Latin fractūra a breaking, fracture ; from the curlicues that seem to interrupt the continuous line of a word
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Example Sentences
In these instances, images of the original fraktur appear directly before the occurrence in the text.
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Bold and italicised text appeared in the original in fraktur.
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In the original book, all German text was printed in fraktur (Gothic) type.
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