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)

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

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

“mille-feuille”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“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)

(cooking) mille-feuille, vanilla slice

Descendants

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

Noun

mille-feuille f (plural mille-feuilles)

(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

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