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scrim

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scrim  (skrm)
n.
1. A durable, loosely woven cotton or linen fabric used for curtains or upholstery lining or in industry.
2. A transparent fabric used as a drop in the theater to create special effects of lights or atmosphere.
[Origin unknown.]
scrim [skrɪm]
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) an open-weave muslin or hessian fabric, used in upholstery, lining, building, and in the theatre to create the illusion of a solid wall or to suggest haziness, etc., according to the lighting
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Noun1.scrim - a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
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Colin Richmond's inventive set - where a scrim and clever lighting allow us to see what is going on throughout the house, mirrors the plotline where what appears solid and respectable (both the marriages and the walls of the marital home) isn't what it seems and where everyone eventually sees the light and the truth behind the comfortable, middle-class facade.
Review; WHEN WE ARE MARRIED Playhouse by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
The upper and Lower opaque PVC sections are 14 oz per square-yard, reinforced with a polyester 9 by 9 by 1000 denier weft inserted scrim laminated into the Fabric for tensile strength and flexibility, according to the company.
Curtain walls by Wood & Wood Products
The second major surface is uppermost and the shelf liner comprises a single layer of scrim and a foamed resin in contact with the scrim that defines the first major surface.
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