n. 1 hist. a gold twenty-franc piece minted in the reign of Napoleon I. 2 hist. a 19th-c. high boot. 3 = NAP(3). 4 US = MILLEFEUILLE. double napoleon hist. a forty-franc piece.
[ F napoléon f. Napoléon, name of 19th-c. French emperors ]
NAPOLEON
Meaning of NAPOLEON in English
Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012