2. Noun. (typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries. ¹
3. Noun. (American English) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fraktur
1. a style of type [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fraktur
Literary usage of Fraktur
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. German Orthography and Phonology: A Treatise with a Word-list by George Hempl (1897)
"fraktur was a fancy type and was sometimes used for headings for ... Capitals of
about 1650 : — For examples of early modern fraktur see § 30, .o, u,,2. ..."