flat-felled seam

[ flat-feld ]

/ ˈflætˌfɛld /

noun

a seam on the face of a garment, as on the outside of the legs of blue jeans, made by overlapping or interlocking one seam allowance with the other and top-stitching them together onto the garment with two parallel rows of stitches.

Nearby words

flat-bed scanner, flat-bottomed, flat-bottomed rail, flat-coated retriever, flat-earther, flat-felled seam, flat-file, flat-footed, flat-grained, flat-joint pointing, flat-knit

Origin of flat-felled seam

First recorded in 1935–40