millefeuille
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of millefeuille
literally: thousand leaves
Example Sentences
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I have even layered them up to make a quick millefeuille dessert with chantilly and fresh fruit.
From Salon
Rosario has Millefeuille, a 20-1 choice from the No. 14 slot.
From Seattle Times
Millefeuille is normally a dessert; in this case he makes it out of chicken.
From The Guardian
Barcelona have had a habit of collapsing like a poorly constructed millefeuille in away legs over the past four years.
From The Guardian
The lab of the wood anatomist is strewn with curiosities: ‘oak’ blinds that turned out to be softwood and a millefeuille of plywood from China with a suspicious veneer.
From Nature
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