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  • noun Plural form of crosshatching.

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Examples

  • The bruises are gone now, but the scars remain, thin crosshatchings on the backs of her thighs and buttocks.

    Excerpt: Tropic of Night by Michael Gruber 2003

  • In Moreno Valley, the crosshatchings draw the topography of a community in anxious flux.

    The Quiet Race War 2008

  • Snow packs into the arches, the crosshatchings of his black rubber soles.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Or the Sea Piece in the James Orrock collection -- a welter of crosshatchings in variegated hues wherein any school of impressionism from Watteau's Embarkment to Monet's latest manner or the _pointillisme_ of Signac and Seurat may be recognised.

    Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

  • Arranged in chromatic groups, crosshatchings of red -, then maroon -, then blue-flecked strips appear to explore different approaches to pattern.

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2010

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