mille-feuille

or mille·feuille

[ meel-fœ-yuh ]

/ milˈfœ yə /

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noun, plural mille-feuilles

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

napoleon (def. 1).

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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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How to use mille-feuille in a sentence

I should like a strawberry ice, and a lemon-squash, and a millefeuille cake.
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British Dictionary definitions for mille-feuille

millefeuille

/ French (milfœj) /

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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