omelet

or om·e·lette

[om-lit, om-uh-]

noun

eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.

Origin of omelet

1605–15; < French omelette, earlier amelette, metathetic form of alemette, variant of alemelle literally, thin plate, variant of Old French lemelle < Latin lāmella. See lamella, -et

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Examples from the Web for omelet

Contemporary Examples of omelet

Failing to make an omelet hardly proves that omelets are illusory if nobody has been willing to break some eggs along the way.
Partition Skepticism and the Future of the Peace Process
Avner Inbar, Assaf Sharon
September 25, 2013
He Said: I completely disagree, and I see both the ice cream cone scene and the omelet scene entirely differently.
‘The Good Wife’: Has Season 4’s Kalinda Storyline Gone too Far?
Jace Lacob, Maria Elena Fernandez
October 15, 2012
That it plays out in such a domestic setting, in a kitchen and he demands that she make him an omelet, is telling as well.
‘The Good Wife’: Has Season 4’s Kalinda Storyline Gone too Far?
Jace Lacob, Maria Elena Fernandez
October 15, 2012
Sen. Sherrod Brown knows which side his omelet is hot-sauced on.
Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards Takes Center Stage in Charlotte
Allison Yarrow
September 5, 2012
He was eating an omelet, and had moved the bread off his plate.
Mike Daisey: The Man Who Outed Apple’s Abysmal Labor Practices in China
Jacob Bernstein
March 16, 2012

Historical Examples of omelet

Or you have no meat, then you have eggs, and what better than an omelet and such an omelet as the following?
Culture and Cooking
Catherine Owen
If your omelet is to be sweet, before you fold it put in a layer of preserves.
Culture and Cooking
Catherine Owen
The omelet should then be served with a rich gravy poured round it.
The Skilful Cook
Mary Harrison
The 'Omelet' was bad enough, but I wrote it more as a joke than anything else.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug
Joseph C. Lincoln
The "Amulet," or the "Omelet," just as you like, was a financial success.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug
Joseph C. Lincoln

Word Origin and History for omelet

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.).