- a variation of mille-feuille.
millefeuille
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of millefeuille
literally: thousand leaves
Example Sentences
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More adventurous eaters will zone in on the abalone served with a squash rosette or the guinea hen with potato millefeuille.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025
I have even layered them up to make a quick millefeuille dessert with chantilly and fresh fruit.
From Salon • May 22, 2024
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 • Apr. 2, 2019
Apparently life should be a sumptuous confection, a millefeuille of giddy Oprah-resonant adjectives like “blessed” and “glamorous” and “inspired” and “ready.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2018
I should like a strawberry ice, and a lemon-squash, and a millefeuille cake.
From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold
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