omelet
or om·e·lette
[om-lit, om-uh-]
- eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.
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Origin of omelet
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Examples from the Web for omelet
Contemporary Examples
Failing to make an omelet hardly proves that omelets are illusory if nobody has been willing to break some eggs along the way.
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.
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 ChinaJacob Bernstein
March 16, 2012
Historical Examples
Or you have no meat, then you have eggs, and what better than an omelet and such an omelet as the following?
Culture and CookingCatherine Owen
If your omelet is to be sweet, before you fold it put in a layer of preserves.
Culture and CookingCatherine Owen
The omelet should then be served with a rich gravy poured round it.
The Skilful CookMary Harrison
The 'Omelet' was bad enough, but I wrote it more as a joke than anything else.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
The "Amulet," or the "Omelet," just as you like, was a financial success.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
Word Origin and History for omelet
n.
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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