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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of fraktur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, countable, uncountable
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noun
A style of black letter type, used especially in German-speaking countries from the 16th century until World War II.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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noun
A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolor illustration and fraktur lettering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhreg- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Latin frangō Latin frāctūrus Latin fractūrabor. German Frakturbor. English fraktur First appears c. 1886 as fractur, and c. 1904 as fraktur, from German Fraktur, from Latin frāctūra (“breaking”, noun), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus. Compare English fracture, fraction. Doublet of fracture.
