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scrim

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Anna Quindlen

"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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

Some newly constructed restaurants are basically massive patios wrapped in a thin scrim of infrastructure. Source: Internet

"Sweetie, what is it?" he said, his face a sudden scrim of worry. Source: Internet

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