mille-feuille
Noun
Meaning
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, (originally US slang) napoleon
Synonyms
Examples
A tuxedo with minutely pleated curving clown pants and a T-shirt dress finished in a mille-feuille of flounces.
Islamic politics and faith, the mille-feuille of layers that constitute belief, and the salty real world behind closed doors, are all caught starkly by Ali’s uneffusive prose.
But don’t get me wrong, if I made you a cake, mille-feuille or Pavlova, it would be delicious!
And no matter what the cost, you’ll want the mille-feuille.
To assemble each mille-feuille, spoon 3 T of the fruit onto a phyllo square, then spoon on 2 to 3 T of the whipped cream.