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hachure or hatchure - n., multiple thin parallel or hatched lines used to indicate shading.
Also, a verb, to shade or show with hachure. When used on maps, hachure is usually drawn in the direction of a slope. From French, from hacher to chop up, hash, from earlier form meaning to cut up, from hache ax, from Frankish roots *hapja, a kind of knife.
---L.
Also, a verb, to shade or show with hachure. When used on maps, hachure is usually drawn in the direction of a slope. From French, from hacher to chop up, hash, from earlier form meaning to cut up, from hache ax, from Frankish roots *hapja, a kind of knife.
---L.
