mille-feuille

or mille·feuille

[ meel-fœ-yuh ]

noun

, French Cooking.

, plural mille-feuilles [meel-, fœ, -y, uh].

1. napoleon ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of mille-feuille¹

1890–95; < French, equivalent to mille thousand (< Latin; milli- ) + feuille leaf, sheet (< Latin folia, neuter plural (taken as feminine singular) of folium )