mille-feuille

Or mille·feuille

[meel-fœ-y^uh]

noun

French Cooking.

plural

mille-feuilles 

1. napoleon.

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 )

Example Sentences

Placing clothes inside it is satisfying, like layering a mille-feuille cake.

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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.

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His more significant contribution to the culture is his style, which is akin to a cultural mille-feuille.

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Provided you've watched all the sketches before this, you'll understand that this entire exchange is a mille-feuille layered joke.

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“My restaurants are not for everybody in terms of taste,” said Ms. Mar of Les Trois Chevaux, which opened last July with a menu that runs to lavish dishes like a mille-feuille pastry stuffed with foie gras.

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