omelet

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When the omelet is almost completely cooked but still a bit wet-looking, flip one side over the other.

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  1. noun A dish consisting of beaten eggs cooked until set and folded over, often around a filling.

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  • We finished off the previous night's leftovers in an enormous omelet, then climbed down the stairway that was anchored to the cliff face to Bootlegger's Cove. —  Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
  • When the omelet is almost completely cooked but still a bit wet-looking, flip one side over the other. —  Kalyn's Kitchen
  • I'm not a god, you know You know that you cannot follow the course outlined without lives being lost," I persisted I'll take your word for it," he flung back lightly That won't deter you in the least Wasn't it Napoleon who said one couldn't make an omelet without breaking eggs And yet his omelet was not a success," I reflected aloud Whose is, Mr. Sedgwick? We all have our Waterloos. —  The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
  • There is also the richer omelet, which is sent to table more resembling a light pudding. —  Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
  • Barney concocted an immense and savoury omelet, and the old trader cooked an excellent turtle-steak, while Martin prepared a junk of jaguar meat, which he roasted, being curious to taste it, as he had been told that the Indians like it very much. —  Martin Rattler
 

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  1. French omelette, from Old French amlette, alteration of alumette, variant of alumelle, probably from (la) lemelle, (the) knife blade, from Latin lāmella, diminutive of lāmina, thin plate.

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  1. Formerly also omlet, omelette, aumelette; from Old French amelette, alemette, French omelette, formerly aumelette, dial. amelette, an omelet (aumelette d'æufs, “an omelet or pancake made of egges,” Cotgrave); prob. so called as being a thin flat cake, being apparently a variant, with interchange of termination, of alemelle, alumelle, alamelle, alemele, the blade of a knife or sword, etc. (French alumelle, the sheathing (plating) of a ship); the form apparently due to a misdivision of the orig. word with the art. la preceding, la lemelle (lemele, lumelle), being miswritten or misread l'alemelle, and the proper form being lamelle, from Latin lamella, a thin plate: see lamella, lamina. A popular etymology of omelette has been that from a supposed phrase æufs mêlès, ‘mixed eggs.’
 

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