mille-feuille

See also: millefeuille

English

Etymology

French mille-feuille

Unadapted borrowing from French mille-feuille (literally “a thousand sheets”). Doublet of milfoil.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /miːlˈfɔɪ/, /miːlˈfɜː.i/, /miːlˈfəː.i/^[1]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmilˈfɔɪ/, /milˈfwi/,^[2] /ˌmil.fəˈwi/^[1]

Noun

mille-feuille (plural mille-feuilles)

1. A type of pastry made of several layers of puff pastry usually filled with cream or custard, and topped with icing or sugar.

   Synonyms: Napoleon cake, (originally US slang) napoleon

Alternative forms

• millefeuille

Coordinate terms

• custard slice
• Napoleon slice
• vanilla slice

Translations

a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry

Arabic: مِيل فَاي m (mīl fāy), مِيل فُوي m (mīl fūy) Armenian: նապոլեոն (hy) (napoleon) Azerbaijani: Napoleon tortu Basque: hostopil Bulgarian: милфей m (milfej), наполеон m (napoleon) Catalan: milfulls m, milfulles m Chinese: Cantonese: 拿破崙／拿破仑 (naa4 po3 leon4), 拿破崙千層酥／拿破仑千层酥 (naa4 po3 leon4 cin1 cang4 sou1) Mandarin: 法式千層酥／法式千层酥 (fàshì qiāncéngsū), 蝴蝶酥 (zh) (húdiésū), 拿破崙酥／拿破仑酥 (nápòlún sū), 拿破崙蛋糕／拿破仑蛋糕 (nápòlún dàngāo) Danish: napoleonskage c Dutch: tompoes (nl) m Finnish: napoleoninleivos, napoleonleivos French: mille-feuille (fr) m Galician: milfollas (gl) m German: Cremeschnitte f Greek: μιλφέιγ (el) n (milféig) Hebrew: קְרֶם שְׁנִיט (he) m (krem shnit), מִילְפֶיּ m (milféy), עוּגַת נָפּוֹלְיוֹן f (ugát napoleón) Hungarian: krémes (hu) Italian: millefoglie (it) m or f Japanese: ミルフィーユ (ja) (mirufīyu) Korean: 밀푀유 (milpoeyu) Limburgish: craemsjnitje Luxembourgish: Mille-feuille Norwegian: napoleonskake m or f Persian: شیرینی ناپلئونی (širini nâpele'oni), میل‌فِی (mil-fey) Polish: napoleonka (pl) f Portuguese: mil-folhas m Romanian: cremșnit (ro) n Russian: наполео́н (ru) m (napoleón) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кремшните n Roman: kremšnite n Spanish: milhojas m Swedish: napoleonbakelse c Vietnamese: bánh minfơi, bánh minphơi

References

1. “mille-feuille”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
2. “mille-feuille”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Further reading

• mille-feuille on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

une tranche de mille-feuille ― a slice of millefeuille

des fleurs de mille-feuille ― yarrow flowers

Alternative forms

• millefeuille

Etymology

From mille (“a thousand”) +‎ feuille (“leaf, layer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil.fœj/

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• Rhymes: -œj

Noun

mille-feuille m (plural mille-feuilles)

2. (cooking) mille-feuille, vanilla slice

Descendants

• → Catalan: milfulls (calque)
• → English: mille-feuille

Noun

mille-feuille f (plural mille-feuilles)

2. (botany) common yarrow, yarrow, milfoil (Achillea millefolium)

   Synonym: achillée

Further reading

• “mille-feuille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• mille-feuille on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr