hachure

[prettygoodword]

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.

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Looks like the English "hatching" has the same etymology.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Yup. Same root, slightly different route.

---L.