Meanings
plural mille-feuilles · alternative millefeuille
- countableuncountableA type of pastry made of several layers of puff pastry usually filled with cream or custard, and topped with icing or sugar.
“Into French food we try to put Japanese techniques, and the traditional Japanese artistic feeling,” Mr. [Susumu] Fukui said. […] Here, mille-feuille is not a flaky pastry confection but layered slices of sashimi in a traditional French vinaigrette.
1983 November 9, Susan Heller Anderson, “Coast’s Latest: ‘FrancAsian’ Cuisine”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015Synonyms: Napoleon cake, Napoleon pastry, napoleon
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA type of pastry made of several layers of puff pastry usually filled with cream or custard, and topped with icing or sugar.
Origin
- Frenchmille-feuille
- Englishmille-feuille
Unadapted borrowing from French mille-feuille (literally “a thousand sheets”). Doublet of milfoil. Compare Spanish milhojas.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مِيل فَاي, مِيل فُوي
- مِيل فَاي (mīl fāy)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- مِيل فُوي (mīl fūy)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Basque hostopil
- hostopila type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Bulgarian милфей, наполеон
- милфей (milfej)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- наполеон (napoleon)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Catalan milfulls, milfulles
- milfullsa type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- milfullesa type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Chinese Cantonese 拿破崙 /拿破仑, 拿破崙千層酥 /拿破仑千层酥
- 拿破崙 /拿破仑 (naa⁴ po³ leon⁴)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- 拿破崙千層酥 /拿破仑千层酥 (naa⁴ po³ leon⁴ cin¹ cang⁴ sou¹)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Chinese Mandarin 法式千層酥 /法式千层酥, 蝴蝶酥
- 法式千層酥 /法式千层酥 (fàshì qiāncéngsū)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- 蝴蝶酥 (húdiésū)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- 拿破崙酥 /拿破仑酥 (nápòlún sū)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- 拿破崙蛋糕 /拿破仑蛋糕 (nápòlún dàngāo)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Danish napoleonskage
- napoleonskagea type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Dutch tompoes
- tompoesa type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Finnish napoleoninleivos, napoleonleivos
- napoleoninleivosa type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- napoleonleivosa type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
French mille-feuille
- mille-feuillea type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
German Cremeschnitte
- Cremeschnittea type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Greek μιλφέιγ
- μιλφέιγ (milféig)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Hebrew קְרֶם שְׁנִיט, מִילְפֶיּ
- קְרֶם שְׁנִיט (krem shnit)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- מִילְפֶיּ (milféy)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- עוּגַת נָפּוֹלְיוֹן (ugát napoleón)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Hungarian krémes
- krémesa type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Indonesian kue napoleon
- kue napoleona type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Italian millefoglie
- millefogliea type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Japanese ミルフィーユ
- ミルフィーユ (mirufīyu)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Korean 밀푀유
- 밀푀유 (milpoeyu)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Norwegian napoleonskake
- napoleonskakea type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Persian شیرینی ناپلئونی, میلفِی
- شیرینی ناپلئونی (širini nâpele'oni)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- میلفِی (mil-fey)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Polish napoleonka
- napoleonkaa type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Portuguese mil-folhas
- mil-folhasa type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Romanian cremșnit
- cremșnita type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Russian наполео́н
- наполео́н (napoleón)a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Spanish milhojas
- milhojasa type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Swedish napoleonbakelse
- napoleonbakelsea type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Turkish milföy
- milföya type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Vietnamese bánh minfơi, bánh minphơi
- bánh minfơia type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
- bánh minphơia type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
Cite this entry
mille-feuille. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mille-feuille
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