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scrim

[skrim] / skrɪm /
NOUN
backdrop
Synonyms
STRONGEST




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The show, which opens Sunday, features a scrim that has been hand-painted with the notes of Mozart’s “Phantasie für eine Orgelwalze.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

Scene 2, a scrim projection informs us, takes place eight years later, moving us back into the time frame of the original libretto.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

The audience could see me through the scrim, but they couldn’t hear us.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

Then Lee Greenwood live-performed Trump’s longtime walk-on music, “God Bless the U.S.A.,” while a scrim slowly rose to reveal an shadowed Trump on the stage, with his name written behind him.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024

Beneath a translucent scrim of clouds at eight o’clock in the morning on November 1, 1938, Maryland Racing Commission chairman Jervis Spencer stepped out onto the smoky brown oval of Pimlico.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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