1Strong, coarse fabric, chiefly used for heavy-duty lining or upholstery.

1. 1.1count noun (in a theatre) a piece of gauze cloth that appears opaque until lit from behind, used as a screen or backcloth.
   〔戏剧〕纱幕
   a plain scrim for backcloth and good lighting are all that are needed

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   • The screens of scrim are elaborately constructed, held away from the dance studio's glass walls, offering protection from the elements and shade from the brutal desert sun.
   • The main space features a 9.5-foot- high ramp that traverses the entire length of the hall, with views to theatrical scrims and to the workers below.
   • Motifs projected onto the scrims appear to be borrowed from the architecture of the theater itself.
   • The Mush Stage depicts a free-form puppet theater where, around a hapless stick-figure marionette, float a plethora of scrims, stage maquettes, painted backdrops and hinged windows.
   • Viewers walking about become ghostly figures in empty rooms, their tangible bodies transformed into shadows whenever they pass behind the scrims.
   • Each is covered with a veil of scrim, painted again and then sanded, so that the surface appears to shimmer from light trapped within.
   • Those descending the ramp see the agency's work projected on a series of theatrical scrims.
   • This created the illusion that the mirror was a graffitied scrim behind which lay another room.
   • Here, the thin scrim is manipulated three-dimensionally with greater freedom than the watertight volumes it veils.
   • ‘There's a piece of some scrim net, a clothes, matches, batteries, and a compact emergency kit which has flares, and nutrient tablets,’ answered Arlyn quickly.
2. 1.2count noun A type of heatproof gauze cloth put over film or television lamps to diffuse the light.
   （电影或电视光源灯的）散光用的耐热粗布
3. 1.3North American count noun A thing that conceals or obscures something.
   〈主美〉遮掩物
   a thin scrim of fog covered the island

   一层薄雾笼罩了岛屿。

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   • The second fan generated a semblance of underwater movement in Atlantic, scrim rippling along the flow.
   • It is nature as seen through a scrim of culture, the ocean as we might dream or imagine it.
   • He pulls the building's structural frame back from the facade so that the glass is read as a thin, form-covering scrim.
   • A voice whispered ‘Let me think,’ as a black scrim descended.
   • Otto-Knapp's Japanese Style Apartments on Figueroa shows the local historicizing architecture overwhelmed by a scrim of green foliage.