mille-feuille

See also: millefeuille

English

mille-feuille

Alternative forms

millefeuille

Etymology

Borrowed from French mille-feuille (literally “a thousand sheets”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /miːlˈfɜːi/, /miːlˈfɔɪ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌmilˈfɔɪ/, /ˌmilˈfɜjə/, /ˌmilfəˈwi/^[1]

Noun

mille-feuille (plural mille-feuilles)

A type of pastry made of several layers of puff pastry usually filled with cream or custard, and topped with icing or sugar.
Synonyms: Napoleon cake, napoleon (originally US slang)

Coordinate terms

custard slice
Napoleon slice
vanilla slice

Translations

a type of pastry with several layers of puff pastry

Arabic: مِيل فَاي‎‎ m (mīl fāy), مِيل فُوي‎‎ m (mīl fūy)
Armenian: նապոլեոն (hy) (napoleon)
Azerbaijani: Napoleon tortu
Basque: hostopil
Bulgarian: милфей m (milfej), наполеон m (napoleon)
Catalan: milfulls m, milfulles m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 拿破崙 (naa⁴po³leon⁴), 拿破崙千層酥 (naa⁴po³leon⁴ cin¹cang⁴sou¹)

Mandarin: 法式千層酥, 法式千层酥 (fàshì qiāncéngsū), 拿破崙酥, 拿破仑酥 (nápòlún sū), 拿破崙蛋糕, 拿破仑蛋糕 (nápòlún dàngāo)
Danish: napoleonskage c
Dutch: tompoes (nl) m
Finnish: napoleoninleivos, napoleonleivos
French: mille-feuille (fr) m
Galician: milfollas (gl) m
German: Cremeschnitte f
Greek: μιλφέιγ (el) n (milféig)

Hebrew: קְרֶם שְׁנִיט‎‎ (he) m (krem shnit), מִילְפֶיּ‎‎ m (milféy), עוּגַת נָפּוֹלְיוֹן‎‎ f (ugát napoleón)
Italian: millefoglie m, f
Japanese: ミルフィーユ (ja) (mirufīyu)
Korean: 밀푀유 (milpoeyu)
Limburgish: craemsjnitje
Luxembourgish: Mille-feuille
Norwegian: napoleonskake m, f
Persian: شیرینی ناپلئونی‎‎ (širini nâpeleoni), میل‌فِی‎‎ (milfey)
Portuguese: mil-folhas m
Russian: наполео́н (ru) m (napoleón)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кремшните n

Roman: kremšnite n
Spanish: milhojas m
Swedish: napoleonbakelse c
Vietnamese: bánh minfơi, bánh minphơi

References

↑ “mille-feuille” (US) / “millefeuille” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

Further reading

mille-feuille on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

une tranche de mille-feuille ― a slice of millefeuille

des fleurs de mille-feuille ― yarrow flowers

Alternative forms

millefeuille

Etymology

From mille (“a thousand”) +‎ feuille (“leaf, layer”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mil.fœj/
Rhymes: -œj

Noun

mille-feuille m (plural mille-feuilles)

(cooking) mille-feuille, vanilla slice

Noun

mille-feuille f (plural mille-feuilles)

(botany) common yarrow, yarrow, milfoil (Achillea millefolium)
Synonym: achillée

Further reading

“mille-feuille” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
mille-feuille on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

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