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Frak⋅tur

  [frahk-toor]
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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; < G < L frāctūra action of breaking (in reference to the curlicues that broke up the continuous line of a word). See fracture
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frak·tur   (fräk-tŏŏr')   
n.  A style of black letter formerly used in German manuscripts and printing.

[German, from Latin frāctūra, a breaking (from the curlicues that appear to break up the 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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