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- French · borrowed frommille-feuille
- English todaymille-feuille
Unadapted borrowing from French mille-feuille (literally “a thousand sheets”). Doublet of milfoil. Compare Spanish milhojas.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mille-feuille
Today it means: A type of pastry made of several layers of puff pastry usually filled with cream or custard, and topped with icing or sugar. Full definition →
French mille-feuille