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mille-feuille

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /miːlˈfɔɪ/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /miːlˈfɜː.i/
  • Received-Pronunciation:
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  • General-American: /ˌmilˈfɔɪ/
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noun

Meaning 1

A type of pastry made of several layers of puff pastry usually filled with cream or custard, and topped with icing or sugar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Napoleon cake, Napoleon pastry, napoleon

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French mille-feuille (literally “a thousand sheets”). Doublet of milfoil. Compare Spanish milhojas.

Across languages

Translations

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مِيل فَاي (mīl fāy) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Arabic: مِيل فُوي (mīl fūy) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Armenian: նապոլեոն (napoleon) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Azerbaijani: Napoleon tortu — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Basque: hostopil — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Bulgarian: милфей (milfej) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Bulgarian: наполеон (napoleon) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Catalan: milfulls — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Catalan: milfulles — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Chinese Cantonese: 拿破崙 /拿破仑 (naa4 po3 leon4) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Chinese Cantonese: 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 (fàshì qiāncéngsū) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蝴蝶酥 (húdiésū) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 拿破崙酥 /拿破仑酥 (nápòlún sū) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Chinese Mandarin: 拿破崙蛋糕 /拿破仑蛋糕 (nápòlún dàngāo) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Danish: napoleonskage — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Dutch: tompoes — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Finnish: napoleoninleivos — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Finnish: napoleonleivos — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • French: mille-feuille — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Galician: milfollas — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • German: Cremeschnitte — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Greek: μιλφέιγ (milféig) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Hebrew: קְרֶם שְׁנִיט (krem shnit) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Hebrew: מִילְפֶיּ (milféy) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Hebrew: עוּגַת נָפּוֹלְיוֹן (ugát napoleón) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Hungarian: krémes — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Indonesian: kue napoleon — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Italian: millefoglie — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Japanese: ミルフィーユ (mirufīyu) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Korean: 밀푀유 (milpoeyu) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Limburgish: craemsjnitje — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Luxembourgish: Mille-feuille — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Norwegian: napoleonskake — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Persian: شیرینی ناپلئونی (širini nâpele'oni) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Persian: میلفِی (mil-fey) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Polish: napoleonka — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Portuguese: mil-folhas — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Romanian: cremșnit — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Russian: наполео́н (napoleón) — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Serbo-Croatian: кремшните — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Serbo-Croatian: kremšnite — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Spanish: milhojas — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Swedish: napoleonbakelse — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Turkish: milföy — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Vietnamese: bánh minfơi — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry
  • Vietnamese: bánh minphơi — a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry