mille-feuille

or mille·feuille

[ meel-fœ-yuh ]
noun,plural mille-feuilles [meel-fœ-yuh]. /milˈfœ yə/. French Cooking.

  1. napoleon (def. 1).

Origin of mille-feuille

1
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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British Dictionary definitions for millefeuille

millefeuille

/ French (milfœj) /

noun

  1. British a small iced cake made of puff pastry filled with jam and cream: US name: napoleon

Origin of millefeuille

1
literally: thousand leaves

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