Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In drawing and engraving, the art of hatching or shading by parallel intersecting lines.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.

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  • verb Present participle of crosshatch.
  • noun art A method of showing shading by means of multiple small lines that intersect.
  • noun A method of indicating terrain on a map by using the same technique.

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Examples

  • They are interlaced, weaving together physically to make a place where neighborhoods abut another country, where a single street can pass between two cities as it meanders from building to building (a phenomenon called "crosshatching").

    Reading the Hugo Nominees: The City & The City Big Jim 2010

  • They are interlaced, weaving together physically to make a place where neighborhoods abut another country, where a single street can pass between two cities as it meanders from building to building (a phenomenon called "crosshatching").

    Archive 2010-07-01 Big Jim 2010

  • Instead of being neighbors, or even divided by a physical barrier, the two cities exist simultaneously in the same area, so that in frequent cases known as "crosshatching" the space of one city intersects and criss-crosses the other.

    The City & The City 2009

  • Two citys that exist in the same space, and overlap at areas of "crosshatching".

    August 13th, 2009 curufea 2009

  • Instead of being neighbors, or even divided by a physical barrier, the two cities exist simultaneously in the same area, so that in frequent cases known as "crosshatching" the space of one city intersects and criss-crosses the other.

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • The attendant pointed out the owner, early 50s with light skin and a round face in a white business shirt with blue crosshatching, talking affably with other men on the street.

    Adam Valen Levinson: Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue Adam Valen Levinson 2011

  • The attendant pointed out the owner, early 50s with light skin and a round face in a white business shirt with blue crosshatching, talking affably with other men on the street.

    Adam Valen Levinson: Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue Adam Valen Levinson 2011

  • The attendant pointed out the owner, early 50s with light skin and a round face in a white business shirt with blue crosshatching, talking affably with other men on the street.

    Adam Valen Levinson: Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue Adam Valen Levinson 2011

  • Whereas the dense thickets of crosshatched lines in Rembrandt's etchings fully exploit the expressive possibilities of chiaroscuro, Degas defines the folds and creases of Tourny's coat with an almost mechanical system of crosshatching, reminiscent of 19th-century line engravings.

    One Master Mines Another Jonathan Lopez 2011

  • The work he seemed to reject, in 1970, was not a single-minded oeuvre, but spanned a remarkable range, from delicate and almost serene studies in red crosshatching that look a bit like a sunset imposed on Monet's waterlilies, to thick, roughly painted and dark forms in the early to mid-1960s that suggest not so much abstraction as a futile effort to paint over and blot out suppressed figurative ideas.

    Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips Philip Kennicott 2011

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