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

At the diner, Tom and Greg order omelets and contemplate their futures.

From Eater

They feed on intrigue and the scraps of Logan’s meticulously doled-out attention, not pastries and omelets.

From 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.”

From Time

Blonsky preps food for her short trips, chopping veggies and filling a Tupperware with spinach — which doubles as a cushion for her omelet eggs.

From Washington Post

While all that is true, it’s also true that you have to break eggs in order to make an omelet.

From Search Engine Land

Failing to make an omelet hardly proves that omelets are illusory if nobody has been willing to break some eggs along the way.

From The Daily Beast

He Said: I completely disagree, and I see both the ice cream cone scene and the omelet scene entirely differently.

From The Daily Beast

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.

From The Daily Beast

Sen. Sherrod Brown knows which side his omelet is hot-sauced on.

From The Daily Beast

He was eating an omelet, and had moved the bread off his plate.

From The Daily Beast

And she recommended great care in dripping the coffee and having the omelet done to a proper turn.

From Project Gutenberg

Sara Lee, enveloped in a large pinafore apron, made the omelet in the kitchen.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

The omelet which Rollo had chosen for his principal dish was excellent too.

From Project Gutenberg

They need tossing up with as light a hand as an omelet, you see.

From Project Gutenberg