omelet

UK: /ˈɒmlɪt/, /ˈɒmlət/ US: /ˈɑmlɪt, ˈɑmə-/ ,(om′lit, om′ə-)

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om•e•let or om•e•lette /ˈɑmlɪt, ˈɑmə-/   n. [countable]

1. Food beaten eggs cooked until set and often served folded around a filling, as of cheese.

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om•e•let  (om′lit, om′ə-), n. 

1. Food eggs beaten until frothy, often combined with other ingredients, as herbs, chopped ham, cheese, or jelly, and cooked until set.

Also, om′e•lette. 

• Latin lāmella. See lamella, -et
• French omelette, earlier amelette, metathetic form of alemette, variant of alemelle literally, thin plate, variant of Old French lemelle
• 1605–15

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omelette, omelet / ˈɒmlɪt/ noun

1. a savoury or sweet dish of beaten eggs cooked in fat

Etymology: 17th Century: 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