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millefeuille

millefeuille is the alternative spelling of mille-feuille.

Meaning of mille-feuille

Noun

mille-feuille (countable and uncountable, plural mille-feuilles)

  1. A 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...

Forms of millefeuille

pluralmillefeuilles

Origin of millefeuille

Unadapted borrowing from French millefeuille.

Questions about millefeuille

What is millefeuille the alternative spelling of?
Millefeuille is the alternative spelling of mille-feuille.

Words near millefeuille in the dictionary

  1. milled peat
  2. milled peats
  3. Milledge
  4. Milledges
  5. Milledgeville
  6. millefeuille
  7. millefeuilles
  8. millefiore
  9. millefiori
  10. millefioris
  11. millefleur

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