Definitions
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- noun A type of
pastry made of several layers ofpuff pastry usually filled with cream or custard, and topped with icing or sugar.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unless you regularly knock out a dessert of caramel mille-feuille, mango and gold leaf press and crystalised chilli.
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Eli Meir Kaplan for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Bitauld's pastry choices include, from left, raspberry tarts, mille-feuille and religieuse.
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Nothing embodies this more fully than the krémes: a quivering quadrangle of vanilla crème, sandwiched between layers of crisp mille-feuille and finished with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.
The Crème of the Krémes in Budapest András Szántó 2011
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Watching England writhing horribly against West Indies in Chennai this week was a strangely familiar experience, partly because it represented just another flaky layer in the crazed mille-feuille of the current World Cup campaign, and partly because I was simultaneously watching archive footage of England writhing horribly against West Indies 30 years ago to the day during the Barbados Test of 1981.
My Beef with England: if only we had an Ian Botham now | Barney Ronay 2011
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Eli Meir Kaplan for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Bitauld's pastry choices include, from left, raspberry tarts, mille-feuille and religieuse.
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András Szántó 'A quivering quadrangle of vanilla crème, sandwiched between layers of mille-feuille and finished with a dusting of sugar.'
The Crème of the Krémes in Budapest András Szántó 2011
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Her teeth sank into the buttery flakes of mille-feuille pastry and then the dark chocolate paste in the center.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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Her teeth sank into the buttery flakes of mille-feuille pastry and then the dark chocolate paste in the center.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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S bastien Broda, the talented young chef who has just pocketed a Michelin star after his first year, excels in subtle combinations of flavors: a crispy mille-feuille of foie gras, served with baby peas and ginger jam, roast pigeon and sweetbreads in a hazelnut shell, and a stunning exotic-fruit souffl for dessert.
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On a recent weekend visit we were offered traditional favorites like liver and bacon stew, steak-and-kidney pudding and spotted dick alongside such gourmet treats as pan-fried halibut on artichoke puree and shrimp-fennel butter followed by rhubarb and whisky mille-feuille.
Suffolk Chic 2009
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Meaning “a thousand layers,” the mille-feuille is a layered confection of pastry, cream, and jam.
Stripe: Thinking Like a Civilization | The Generalist Artwork by 2023
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