omelet

or om·e·lette

[ om-lit, om-uh- ]

/ ˈɒm lɪt, ˈɒm ə- /

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noun

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

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

Words nearby omelet

omega baryon, omega-c baryon, omega meson, omega minus, omega-minus particle, omelet, omelette, omen, omentum, omeprazole, omer

How to use omelet in a sentence

At the diner, Tom and Greg order omelets and contemplate their futures.
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They feed on intrigue and the scraps of Logan’s meticulously doled-out attention, not pastries and omelets.
In ‘Succession,’ Food Exists Only to Create More Misery|Amy McCarthy|November 22, 2021|Eater
Schaefer says the next two to three years of cementing this new regulatory framework are going to be “rough and tumble, breaking some eggs to make this omelet.”
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Blonsky preps food for her short trips, chopping veggies and filling a Tupperware with spinach — which doubles as a cushion for her omelet eggs.
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While all that is true, it’s also true that you have to break eggs in order to make an omelet.
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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|DAILY BEAST
He Said: I completely disagree, and I see both the ice cream cone scene and the omelet scene entirely differently.
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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|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
And she recommended great care in dripping the coffee and having the omelet done to a proper turn.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Sara Lee, enveloped in a large pinafore apron, made the omelet in the kitchen.
The Amazing Interlude|Mary Roberts Rinehart
And Sara Lee beat up the eggs and found, after a bad moment, some salt in a box, and then poured her omelet into the pan.
The Amazing Interlude|Mary Roberts Rinehart
The omelet which Rollo had chosen for his principal dish was excellent too.
Rollo on the Rhine|Jacob Abbott
They need tossing up with as light a hand as an omelet, you see.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865|Various