🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

poché

Pronunciation / Transliteration: po-ché

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Poché/poʊˈʃeɪ/
adjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #45200 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"I muri portanti sono indicati come poché nella pianta."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    In architectural drawing, designating the shaded or filled-in representation of solid walls, columns, or structural elements in a floor plan or section.

    "The architect used a dark hatch to indicate the poché walls on the structural blueprint."
  2. 2

    Pertaining to a method of rendering mass and depth by darkening or hatching the interior of solid forms.

    "The classical drawing emphasized the poché technique to give a strong sense of spatial hierarchy."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French past participle of pocher, meaning 'to pocket' or 'to bulge', stemming from the Old French ' poche' (bag or pocket). In cartography and architecture, it evolved in the 19th century to describe shaded or hatched areas representing solid walls or sections.

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