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scrim|skrɪm|
[Of obscure origin.]
1. A kind of thin canvas used for lining in upholstery, and for other purposes. Also attrib.
Now freq. made of muslin, sacking, or similar material. Also in Mil. use.
1792Statist. Acc. Scot. VI. 514 A few yard-wides called Scrims. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Scrims, thin canvas glued on the inside of a panel to keep it from cracking or breaking. 1881Carter & Co.'s Pract. Gardener 75 It is a good plan to have coarse scrim canvas strained over the ventilators. 1881T. Moore in Encycl. Brit. XII. 220/2 They should have attached to them scrim cloth (a sort of thin canvas), which admits light pretty freely, yet is sufficient to ward off ordinary frosts. 1885N.Y. Weekly Sun 13 May 6/7 White goods, scrim curtains and table damasks have a fairly liberal outlet. 1895Daily News 2 Feb. 2/6 The recent briskness in scrims has shown no sign of falling off. 1936R. Hyde Passport to Hell xiii. 199 The huge spoil-dumps were camouflaged with green boughs and scrim. 1942H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery (ed. 2) 97 Scrim. The coarse textured net fabric used for attaching to the glued backs of cheap cased-in books. 1947D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 179 A man sat screened by scrim on the latrine. 1961Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Jan. 1/4 Most of the testing..involves use of knitted paper in such unglamorous jobs as backing, or ‘scrim’, for more costly synthetic fibers. 1964Weekly News (Auckland) 29 Apr. 41/2 Later there will be shrubs that have been wrenched and their roots balled up in scrim. 1970New Society 5 Mar. 386/1 One technique, SRM (scrim-reinforced material), uses heat to laminate a scrim of random-laid fibres to wadding; the heat reactivates the bonding glue.
2. A piece of scrim used as a window-covering; spec. a thin, gauze-like, curtain material. Usu. as window scrim.
1915E. G. Pilling Anzac Memory (1933) 119 Look out of the broken, scrim-covered window across fields white with snow. 1969Widdowson & Halpert in Halpert & Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 149 Some would put on what they used to call muslin, you know. Muslin or scrim, window scrim.., you know, like you'd have for a curtain; you could see out through it. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, you Bastard ii. 61 Outside on the balcony was a small piece of window scrim.
3. a. Theatr. and Cinemat. Gauze cloth used for screens or for filtering theatrical lighting; a screen of this material. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1928A. E. Krows Equipment for Stage Production vii. 90 The foliage..is painted on a canvas drop..and, after being cut away, is mounted..to a curtain made of a coarse netting called scrim. 1937F. Napier Curtains for Stage Settings vi. 101 The space below the aperture can be filled in with brown paper, decorated with panels outlined in paint or chalk, but it must be pasted on to butter muslin or scrim to make it more durable. 1939N. Coward Play Parade II. p. x, Scrim, American term for a Gauze Cloth. 1950People (Austral.) 15 Mar. 46/1 She was told she would be seated behind a ‘scrim’ (stage jargon for a gauze screen). 1957V. J.-R. Kehoe Techn. Film & T.V. Make-Up i. 17 A spotlight to add highlight to the cheekbone, with a scrim over the light to soften the beam. 1975New Yorker 26 May 90/2 The Prince and the Lilac Fairy get into a boat that remains motionless as a scrim painted with leaves and branches moves sideways across the stage. 1977Time 27 June 45/1 The vast (5,000 sq. ft.) shuffle area is a stage, with theatrical lighting, scrims and backdrops rising as high as 85 ft.
b. fig. A veil or screen; something that conceals what is happening.
a1963S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 37 The salt Scrim of a sea breeze. 1970H. & F. Schreider Exploring Amazon vii. 154 The city of Manaus shimmered through the great scrim of rain like a stage setting from the pageant of its own lost glory. 1972Publishers' Weekly 12 June 16/1 France and the French did more than serve as a scrim for vagabonding Americans. 1977Time 6 June 10/2 The full story of Podgorny's dismissal may remain forever behind the scrim that veils the Kremlin's backstage dramas. |