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Definitions for Fraktur
[1] Printing . German black-letter text, a style of type.
[2] (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.
[3] a style of typeface, formerly used in German typesetting for many printed works
Origin of Fraktur
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
Word origin for Fraktur
German, from Latin fractūra a breaking, fracture ; from the curlicues that seem to interrupt the continuous line of a word