mille-feuille

or mille·feuille

[ meel-fœ-yuh ]

noun

, French Cooking.

, plural mille-feuilles [meel-, fœ, -y, uh].

1. napoleon ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of mille-feuille¹

1890–95; < French, equivalent to mille thousand (< Latin; milli- ) + feuille leaf, sheet (< Latin folia, neuter plural (taken as feminine singular) of folium )

Example Sentences

That movie was, for me, the year’s best, a sublime ghost story in which a parent-child weepie and an achingly tender romance are layered into a kind of metaphysical mille-feuille.

From Los Angeles Times

His more significant contribution to the culture is his style, which is akin to a cultural mille-feuille.

From Washington Post

Provided you've watched all the sketches before this, you'll understand that this entire exchange is a mille-feuille layered joke.

From Salon

“My restaurants are not for everybody in terms of taste,” said Ms. Mar of Les Trois Chevaux, which opened last July with a menu that runs to lavish dishes like a mille-feuille pastry stuffed with foie gras.

From New York Times

A French prime minister should be loyal, content at lingering in their boss’s shadow and a dab hand with the country’s mille-feuille bureaucracy.

From Reuters