His Sunday-morning ritual was cutting them into little pieces and frying them crisp and then folding them into an omelette.
He could make an omelette or sew on a button with woman's skill.
You cannot have an omelette without the sacrifice of an egg.
An omelette would be delicious, provided she could make one properly.
Just at that moment Mistress Boris entered with a dish of omelette.
The repast began with these, the fowls followed, and it was concluded with an omelette.
His soul simmering with omelette, he darted towards the door.
She evidently wanted to eat an omelette as well, but Lalage forbade this.
“Abram and I are so fond of omelette,” she said, as the egg-beater whirred.
When the omelette is thrown in front of you it at once makes its presence felt.
1610s, from French omelette (16c.), metathesis of alemette (14c.), from alemele "omelet," literally "blade (of a knife or sword)," probably a misdivision of la lemelle (mistaken as l'alemelle), from Latin lamella "thin, small plate," diminutive of lamina "plate, layer" (see laminate). The food so called from its flat shape. The proverb "you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs" (1859) translates French On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs. Middle English had hanonei "fried onions mixed with scrambled eggs" (mid-15c.).
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