napoleon cake

noun

A millefeuille pastry.

Meanings

napoleon cake1

nounnapoleon cake (countable and uncountable, plural napoleon cakes)

plural napoleon cakes

  1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Napoleon cake.

    And he grabbed her hand and told her his name and said he didn’t like szarlotka, what he really liked was napoleonka, he was just like John Paul II in that he could eat eighteen pieces of napoleon cake at one sitting.

    2025 August 26, Helen Oyeyemi, “Friday”, in A New New Me: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN

Napoleon cake2

nounNapoleon cake (countable and uncountable, plural Napoleon cakes)

plural Napoleon cakes · alternative napoleon cake

  1. countableuncountablebakingA millefeuille pastry.

    Desserts are ordinary. Commercial bakery fare like chocolate-mousse cake, wedges of Napoleon cake or raspberry torte is certainly acceptable, although unexciting.

    1991 July 14, Joanne Starkey, “DINING OUT; Where the Food Outshines the Service”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015

    Synonyms: napoleon, Napoleon pastry

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA millefeuille pastry.

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