millefeuille

British

/ milfœj /

noun

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

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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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