Meanings
- not comparableMade from a variety of fruits and nuts, especially citrus peels, angelica, and almonds in a hard white base.
Millefruit Cakes
1894, J[ohn] K[ersley] Fowler, Recollections of Old Country Life: Social, Political, Sporting, & Agricultural, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and New York: […], page 1013 more examples
Millefruit Ice Cream
1789, [Frederick Nutt], The Complete Confectioner; or, The Whole Art of Confectionary: […], London: […] the Author; […], page 124The only invigorating debate going on in this drawing room is whether or not to try a millefruit biscuit or the rather bland cake that brown-haired fellow to our right is crumbling into a pile of sweet rubbish on his plate.
2015, Alexandra Hawkins, A Duke But No Gentleman (Masters of Seduction), St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 63Pippin knots, millefruit biscuits, preserved cherries, and apricot tartlets were Kitty’s for the taking.
2022, Laura Frantz, A Heart Adrift, Revell, →ISBN
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