mille-feuille

or mille·feuille

[meel-fœ-yuh]

noun, plural mille-feuilles

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

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)

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Examples from the Web for millefeuille

Historical Examples of millefeuille

I should like a strawberry ice, and a lemon-squash, and a millefeuille cake.
The Roll-Call
Arnold Bennett

British Dictionary definitions for millefeuille

millefeuille

noun

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

Word Origin for millefeuille

literally: thousand leaves

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