A “hachure” (ha-SHOOR) – from the French for “crosshatch” – is one of the short lines used on maps to shade or to indicate slopes and their degree and direction.
Example (as used by Zadie Smith in White Teeth): “It was an extreme close-up of an old man, the contours of his face clearly defined by line and shade, hachures on a topographic map.”
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