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

The route: This is your longest day, so get an early start with coffee, an omelet and a tall stack at Uncle Bill’s Pancake House.

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In between bites of my mushroom omelet at Perch, we bonded over our dysfunctional families, perfectly depicted in our favorite binge show, “The Bear.”

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They make this really good French omelet and serve it with a side salad.

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Ribbit is a frog musician made of two metal bowls with an omelet maker as its face.

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What you need for this open-faced spiral omelet is the perfect nonstick, stainless steel pan, which I just received from HexClad.

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