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.
Origin of flat-felled seam
First recorded in 1935–40
Words nearby flat-felled seam
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