Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
confection soudée
English translation:
welded construction
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Confection soudée
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Tony M
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Feb 11, 2019 17:06: GILLES MEUNIER changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Feb 18, 2019 06:35: Tony M changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/2460635">Philip Trommel's</a> old entry - "Confection soudée"" to ""welded construction""
PRO (1): Yolanda Broad
Non-PRO (3): mchd, Rachel Fell, GILLES MEUNIER
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Proposed translations
welded seams
We do indeed talk about 'welding' polymers — perhaps more strictly speaking it is a kind of heat-sealing (as for sachets of produts, for example). 'joint' would be quite wrong, and indeed, would frnakly be nonesencial in this context.
What it means, of course, is that if all the seams are welded, there cannot be even the tiniest hole where it could leak.
As for 'taille', you seem to be mistakenly assuming this is the 'size' of the garment — but of course, it can also be (as obviously here) the 'waist'; so the waist is 'marked' with additional welding — the idea is probably thet it is gathered in a little in some way, but the exact term to use for 'marquée' will depend of course on the actual form it takes and what the garment looks like.
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Rafal Piotrowski
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Thanks, Rafal!
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mchd
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Merci, M-C !
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Rachel Fell
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Thanks, Rachel!
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Antoine Dequidt
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Merci, Antoine !
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Discussion
Also 'heat / thermally sealed' is a little risk to use, simply because there is confusion with the notion of something being sealed hermetically.
Pour info : https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/taille/76429
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_welding
WELD
verb (used with object)
to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
(after dictionary.com)
Hope this helps :)