scrim

Etymology

Attested since the end of the 18th century, though its origin is unknown. One of the earliest mentions is in John Sinclair's "The Statistical Account of Scotland", 1793, page 593, in a passage on weavers: "Besides these, they are now much employed in working a thin kind of coarse linen called Silesias, vulgarly Scrims, whereof each piece is 27 or 30 inches broad".