mille-feuille

or mille·feuille

[ meel-fœ-yuh ]

noun,plural mille-feuilles

[meel-fœ-yuh]. /milˈfœ yə/. French Cooking.

napoleon (def. 1).

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)

Words Nearby mille-feuille

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milldam
Millecent
milled
Milledgeville
mille-feuille
millefiori
millefleur
millefleurs
millenarian
millenarianism

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British Dictionary definitions for millefeuille

millefeuille

/ French (milfœj) /

noun

British a small iced cake made of puff pastry filled with jam and cream: US name: napoleon

Origin of millefeuille

literally: thousand leaves

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