flat-felled seam

[ flat-feld ]

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flat-felled seam¹

First recorded in 1935–40