Definitions for frakturfrɑkˈtur

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

Frak•turfrɑkˈtur(n.)

  1. German black-letter text type.

    Category: Printing

  2. (often l.c.) a stylized, highly decorative watercolor or calligraphic technique in the Pennsylvania-German tradition.

    Category: Fine Arts

Origin of Fraktur:

1900–05, Amer.; < G < L frāctūra action of breaking (in reference to the curlicues that broke up the continuous line of a word). See fracture

Wiktionary

  1. fraktur(Noun)

    A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.

  2. fraktur(Noun)

    A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.

  3. Origin: 1886 fractur, 1904 fraktur, from Fraktur, from fractura < frangere, past participle fractus. Compare fracture, fraction.


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