black letter
Noun
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Noun
black letter
- (typography) A Northern European style of type, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.
- Text set in black-letter type.
- (legal) The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute.
- (typeface) gothic
- French: Fraktur
- German: Bruchschrift, gebrochene Schrift, Fraktur, gotische Schrift
- German: Frakturtext
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