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omelette

UK/ˈɒmlɪt/US/ˈɑmlət/
nounA2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,693 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: omelettes

An omelette is beaten eggs cooked flat in a pan and folded over. A cheese omelette, make an omelette, a French omelette.

The French kind is pale and rolled with a soft centre and the pan is never allowed to colour it, which is why it is used as a test of a cook. You cannot make one without breaking eggs is the proverb about necessary costs. American writing spells it omelet.

Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France · CC BY 2.0

Definitions of omelette

  1. 1nounomeletteBeaten eggs cooked flat in a pan and folded.A2+

    “He whisked three eggs and made a cheese omelette for breakfast.”

omelette is a dish.

Also accepted in games: omelet

Where it comes from

French omelette comes by a tangle of alterations from lamelle, a thin plate, from Latin lamella.

  1. French

    omelette

  2. English, today

    omelette

1611; French omelette, see which for further etymology.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink

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omelette in the wild

  • A Spanish omelette or Spanish tortilla is an omelette made with eggs and potatoes, often including onions.

    Spanish omelette

  • Grated cheese is sometimes put over the omelette, which may also be filled with things such as shrimp and/or chicken-flavoured with curry.

    Masala omelette

  • A tomato omelette is a breakfast dish prepared mostly in Maharashtra, India.

    Tomato omelette

  • Tomato omelettes are served hot with ketchup, coconut chutney, sambar or any other pickle.

    Tomato omelette

  • While Decho can be described as an omelette, it is also an alternate form of a dumpling.

    Decho

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.