mille-feuille
or mille·feuille
[ meel-fœ-yuh ]
/ milˈfœ yə /
noun, plural mille-feuilles [meel-fœ-yuh] /milˈfœ yə/. French Cookery.
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)
Words nearby mille-feuille
millbrae,
millburn,
millbury,
millcake,
milldam,
mille-feuille,
millecent,
milled,
milledgeville,
millefeuille,
millefiori
Example sentences from the Web for 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
/ French (milfœj) /
noun
British
a small iced cake made of puff pastry filled with jam and cream
US name: napoleon
Word Origin for millefeuille
literally: thousand leaves