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A highly calligraphic Western European script style used from approximately 1150.
A Northern European style of type based on the script, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, calligraphy, communications, journalism, literature, media, publishing, typography, writing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Gothic
Antonyms: none provided
A highly calligraphic Western European script style used from approximately 1150.
Text set in black-letter type.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, calligraphy, communications, journalism, literature, media, publishing, writing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Gothic
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: font, fount, typeface, face, case
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Esperanto:
frakturo
— a Northern-European style of type
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Finnish:
goottilainen kirjaintyyli
— a Northern-European style of type
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Finnish:
fraktuura
— a Northern-European style of type
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French:
gothique
— a Northern-European style of type
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German:
Bruchschrift
— a Northern-European style of type
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German:
gebrochene Schrift
— a Northern-European style of type
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German:
Fraktur
— a Northern-European style of type
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German:
gotische Schrift
— a Northern-European style of type
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Hungarian:
gót betű
— a Northern-European style of type
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Polish:
gotyk
— a Northern-European style of type
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Spanish:
letra gótica
— a Northern-European style of type
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Spanish:
letra de Tortis
— a Northern-European style of type
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German:
Frakturtext
— text set in black-letter type
