scrim

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.

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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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Thesaurus

Noun

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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"