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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Frak•tur (fräk to̅o̅r′),USA pronunciation n. - [Print.]German black-letter text, a style of type.
- Fine Art(usually l.c.) 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.
- Latin frāctūra action of breaking (in reference to the curlicues that broke up the continuous line of a word). See fracture
- German
- 1900–05, American.
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