FRAKTUR

Etymology

Noun

fraktur (countable and uncountable, plural frakturs)

(typography) A style of black letter type, used especially in Germany in the 16th to 20th centuries.

(US) A Pennsylvania German document style, incorporating watercolour illustration and fraktur lettering.

Noun

Fraktur (plural Frakturs)

Alternative letter-case form of fraktur

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

19 June 2025

ROOTS

(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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