hachure
one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
shading composed of such lines.
Origin of hachure
1- Also hatch·ure [hach-er] /ˈhætʃ ər/ .
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How to use hachure in a sentence
(a) in outline, with contours in black, (b) with hills hachured in brown or black, and (c) printed in five colours.
The hills are hachured, the light, in the case of the loftier regions, being supposed to fall obliquely.
The hills are hachured and in some instances contours at intervals of 50 metres are introduced.
The hachured hills are based upon contours, and are of admirable commensurability.
The pottery designs of this period were often hachured patterns, with the thin filling lines surrounded by heavier boundary lines.
Aztec Ruins National Monument--New Mexico | John M. Corbett
British Dictionary definitions for hachure
/ (hæˈʃjʊə) /
hatching: See hatch 3
shading of short lines drawn on a relief map to indicate gradients
(tr) to mark or show by hachures
Origin of hachure
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