mille-feuille
Americannoun
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mille-feuilles
plural
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Etymology
Origin of mille-feuille
1890–95; < French, equivalent to mille thousand (< Latin; see milli-) + feuille leaf, sheet (< Latin folia, neuter plural (taken as feminine singular) of folium )
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That movie was, for me, the year’s best, a sublime ghost story in which a parent-child weepie and an achingly tender romance are layered into a kind of metaphysical mille-feuille.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
His more significant contribution to the culture is his style, which is akin to a cultural mille-feuille.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2022
Provided you've watched all the sketches before this, you'll understand that this entire exchange is a mille-feuille layered joke.
From Salon ● May 20, 2022
A French prime minister should be loyal, content at lingering in their boss’s shadow and a dab hand with the country’s mille-feuille bureaucracy.
From Reuters ● Apr. 26, 2022
Compare that to the final technical challenge for Hussain’s season, which was mille-feuille, an undoubtedly difficult undertaking that is nonetheless easily recognizable.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2020
Sondheim not only layers individual vocal lines into dense mille-feuilles of choral noise but also forces contrasting feelings into uncomfortable proximity with words that belie the tunes, and vice versa.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2021
Unsurprisingly, there's also a great dessert chapter — Albert and Michel Roux both began as pastry chefs — loaded with clafoutis and soufflés and mille-feuilles, as well as fritters and simple peaches and cream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2016
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