millefeuille

/ milfœj /

noun

1. a small iced cake made of puff pastry filled with jam and cream US namenapoleon

Word History and Origins

Origin of millefeuille¹

literally: thousand leaves

Example Sentences

I have even layered them up to make a quick millefeuille dessert with chantilly and fresh fruit.

From Salon

Rosario has Millefeuille, a 20-1 choice from the No. 14 slot.

From Seattle Times

Millefeuille is normally a dessert; in this case he makes it out of chicken.

From The Guardian

Barcelona have had a habit of collapsing like a poorly constructed millefeuille in away legs over the past four years.

From The Guardian

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