Crossword-Solution: SCRIM 5 letters, 86 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Scrim n. A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in
openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India
scrim.
Scrim n. Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent
shrinking, checking, etc.

We have 86 clues for the answer “SCRIM”

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Fabric for theater curtains 1 answer
Material for a stage curtain 1 answer
Loosely woven cotton cloth. 1 answer
Light, coarse fabric. 1 answer
Light, coarse cotton. 1 answer
Light woven cloth 1 answer
Hanging in the theater 1 answer
Gauzy theatrical drop 1 answer
Fabric used for theater curtains 1 answer
Fabric used for theater backdrops 1 answer
Fabric in theater curtains 1 answer
Loosely woven cotton or linen. 1 answer
Fabric akin to theatrical gauze. 1 answer
Exhibit parsimony 1 answer
Drop on a stage 1 answer
Divisive device in the theater 1 answer
Curtain on stage 1 answer
Backlit theater drop 1 answer
Cotton or linen fabric 1 answer
Cloth screen used by gaffers 1 answer
Cloth used in theater backdrops 1 answer
Practice match, for short 1 answer
open-weave muslin or hessian fabric 1 answer
backdrop Theater 1 answer
a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater 1 answer
Transparent theater drop 1 answer
Translucent theater drop 1 answer
Thin theatrical curtain. 1 answer
Thin theater screen 1 answer
Theatrical hanging 1 answer
Theatrical drop 1 answer
Theater drop fabric 1 answer
Theater curtain material 1 answer
Theater curtain fabric 1 answer
Theater Drop 1 answer
Strong coarse fabric used for upholstery 1 answer
Stage curtain fabric 1 answer
Sheer cloth used for curtains 1 answer
Semitransparent curtain 1 answer
Phony wall 1 answer
Theater curtain 2 answers
COARSE woven fabric 2 answers
Cloth type. 2 answers
fabric linen sheer 2 answers
Certain curtain 2 answers
linen sheer fabric 2 answers
Be parsimonious 3 answers
fabric Curtain 3 answers
Curtain fabric, perhaps 3 answers
Theatrical curtain 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SCRIM (5)

Its walls had been hung with Willesden scrim gilded over; the curtains were silver-grey; there was a divan covered with silver-and-gold stuff, and a beaten brass fireplace.
Beyond John Galsworthy 2006
Even a simple scrim curtain----- And, in thinking of this, Nan raised her eyes to one window to see a face pressed close against the glass, and two rolling, crablike eyes glaring in at her.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp Annie Roe Carr 2001
For that moment, however, he waits anxiously, for while his scrim is playing with bulldog grit it is losing snap.
The Prospector Ralph Connor 2003
Old Black runs up through the crowd and whispers in Campbell's ear, "Put Balfour and Martin in the scrim.
The Prospector Ralph Connor 2003
How did he work it? He'd sit down all of a sudden, put on a stupid look, do the scrim-shanker stunt, and flop like a bundle of dirty linen.
Under Fire Henri Barbusse 2003

Quotes with SCRIM (3)

When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.
Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Lorelei It is no night to drown in: A full moon, river lapsing Black beneath bland mirror-sheen, The blue water-mists dropping Scrim after scrim like fishnets Though fishermen are sleeping, The massive castle turrets Doubling themselves in a glass All stillness. Yet these shapes float Up toward me, troubling the face Of quiet. From the nadir They rise, their limbs ponderous With richness, hair heavier Than sculptured marble. They sing Of a world more full and clear Than can b…
Sylvia Plath
She is dead now, so I can say that she laughed like us, played like us and her adult life turned out okay- so I heard. But then when we were all twelve or less, it seemed as though she floated behind a scrim. Markedly pretty, she had eyes full of distance- a smile made more attractive by what it withheld; some knowingness it appeared unwilling to share. In the early forties "cool" was our word to describe her, although, at the time, I thought she was simply sad. Something tre…
Toni Morrison
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 119 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).