omelet

[om-lit, om-uh-] Origin

om·e·let

[om-lit, om-uh-]
noun
eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.
Also, om·e·lette.


Origin:
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
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Omelet is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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omelette or esp (US) omelet (ˈɒmlɪt)
 
n
a savoury or sweet dish of beaten eggs cooked in fat
 
[C17: from French omelette, changed from alumette, from alumelle sword blade, changed by mistaken division from la lemelle, from Latin (see lamella); apparently from the flat shape of the omelette]
 
omelet or esp (US) omelet
 
n
 
[C17: from French omelette, changed from alumette, from alumelle sword blade, changed by mistaken division from la lemelle, from Latin (see lamella); apparently from the flat shape of the omelette]

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omelet
1611, from Fr. omelette (16c.), metathesis of alemette (14c.), from alemelle "blade of a knife or sword," probably a misdivision of la lemelle (mistaken as l'alemelle), from L. lamella "thin, small plate," dim. of lamina "plate, layer." The food so called from its flat shape. The proverb "you can't make
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an omelet without breaking eggs" (1859) translates Fr. On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs.
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