omelet

Or om·e·lette

[om-lit, om-uh-]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of omelet¹

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

Example Sentences

They were all seated in coach and paid $20 each for the breakfast quesadillas and omelets.

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Fit for Sunday mornings at Balmoral, this one will weather decades of omelet service and crossword solving.

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We stop to appreciate the color and a local omelet.

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I usually get a skillet or an omelet, then combine that with a waffle.

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Occasionally I will get up and make an omelet with all the things and some smothered potatoes, and bring it upstairs on a cart with some juice.

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