Definitions for scrims

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Spelling: [skrim]
IPA: /skrɪm/

Scrims is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in scrims (cimrss).

Definitions for scrims

noun

  1. a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
  2. Theater. a piece of such fabric used as a drop, border, or the like, for creating the illusion of a solid wall or backdrop under certain lighting conditions or creating a semitransparent curtain when lit from behind.

Origin of scrims

First recorded in 1785-95; origin uncertain

Examples for scrims

I've lost my check-book somewhere in the scrim, and so I wonder if you'd send her some money.

He layered a scrim of black chiffon over lingerie-style dresses in red, and he adorned a bare, purple slip dress with gems.

To my horror, he was romping with a girl on a white beach, a scrim of sand dusting her tan skin.

Sometimes you will have to snip the thread of the scrim if your needle accidentally gets caught in them.

Both of them, peering through the scrim curtains, saw a tall white figure disappear into the spring-house.

Well, I was ready for any scrim of a shortage—I mean any sort of a scrimmage.

Work the design on it and when the cross-stitching is all finished pull out the scrim thread by thread.

The endless succession of quotation marks is its own contrivance, a scrim between Shields and the world.

Take a square of scrim or Hardanger canvas eight inches large.

She asked this question after she had shown the scrim curtains she had found and brought home with her.

Word Value for scrims
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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