Associations to the word «Hachure»

Wiktionary

HACHURE, noun. (cartography) (chiefly historical) A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.

Dictionary definition

HACHURE, noun. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope