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noun
1.
Printing. German black-letter text, a style of type.
2.
(usually lowercase) Also, fractur.
a.
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.
b.
the elaborate calligraphy used in frakturs.
Origin:
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
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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Word Origin & History
fraktur
German black-lettering, 1886, from Ger. Fraktur, from L. fractura (see fracture), so called from its angular, "broken" letters. The style was commonly used in Ger. printing from c.1540. Sense often transferred to Pennsylvania German arts that incorporate the lettering.
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