Definitions for frakturfrɑkˈtur
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Frak•turfrɑkˈtur(n.)
German black-letter text type.
Category: Printing
(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
fraktur(Noun)
A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.
fraktur(Noun)
A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.
Origin: 1886 fractur, 1904 fraktur, from Fraktur, from fractura < frangere, past participle fractus. Compare fracture, fraction.
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