scrim
Speech parts
1. scrim - Noun
2. scrim - Verb
Meaning
A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim.
Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.
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Examples
I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.
"For us, the supposedly normal, seeing the truth through the scrim of an unreliable perspective makes the story more layered and, paradoxically, its meaning clearer.
Each of Doi's prettily delicate, pointillism-precise illustrations seems to be topped with a gauzy scrim, as if in effort not to overtax beleaguered young readers.
Some newly constructed restaurants are basically massive patios wrapped in a thin scrim of infrastructure.
"Sweetie, what is it?" he said, his face a sudden scrim of worry.