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