meel-FWEEH. French for "a thousand leaves", a dish of stacked pastry layers with fillings that can be sweet or savoury, most commonly sweet.
Small rectangular pastries made of crisp layers of puff pastry and pastry cream. This may also include savory fillings of similar presentation. The word mille-feuille means a thousand leaves.
refers to puff pastry with many thin layers; usually a cream-filled rectangle of puff pastry, or a Napoleon.
The Mille-feuille(s) (French 'thousand sheets'), Napoleon (esp. U.S.), vanilla slice or cream slice (esp. U.K. and Commonwealth) is a pastry made of several layers of puff pastry alternating with a sweet filling, typically pastry cream, but sometimes whipped cream, or jam.