(noun) a durable plain-woven usually cotton fabric for use in clothing, curtains, building, and industry / (noun) a theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted / (noun) something likened to a theater scrim
the sweet, woody smell of it mingled with that of his drugstore-brand dandruff shampoo and the Italian soap he used to hand-wash his lingerie, plus an underlying scrim of a thirty-seven-year-old dude—chopped garlic and decay