Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing, the form of pointed letter used in ordinary German books and newspapers.
- noun This is Fraftur Type.
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- noun Alternative capitalization of
fraktur
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Fraktur is a German word that was used to describe not only the material but also the style of print.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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Fraktur is a German word that was used to describe not only the material but also the style of print.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Pennsylvania German broadsides and Fraktur 2006
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German text represented in "Fraktur" is using a different writing system than German text represented in "Roman".
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Germany a version of Gothic script, termed Fraktur, survived in printed books into the twentieth century.)
CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968
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Nowhere else is there the type of information that the Fraktur and broadside contain.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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Secondly, this project was interesting to me because going in to the interview and website I had no prior knowledge of what a Fraktur or a broadside was.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Pennsylvania German broadsides and Fraktur 2006
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Nowhere else is there the type of information that the Fraktur and broadside contain.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Pennsylvania German broadsides and Fraktur 2006
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Secondly, this project was interesting to me because going in to the interview and website I had no prior knowledge of what a Fraktur or a broadside was.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Pennsylvania German broadsides and Fraktur 2006
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Perhaps it is derived from the German [Fraktur: magd] with the termination een or - den added, as in the Lincolnshire dialect, hee-der, and shee-der, denote the male and female sex.
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