Definition of "hachure" []

• One of the short lines used on maps to shade or to indicate slopes and their degree and direction. (noun)
• To make hatching on (a map). (verb-transitive)

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• "Squiggled hachure began early and so did stepped triangles, waved lines, and free-standing figures."
• "` Chaco 'pottery or thought of as closely related to Chaco pottery "and, again, as though clarifying Morris," The so-called non-Chaco pottery of the Chaco period on the La Plata is clearly Mancos Black-on-white decorated with solid elements, lines and dots, and parallel stripes; the so-called Chaco-like is hachure-style Mancos "(ibid., p. 97)."