Breakfast dishes made by beating and cooking eggs together, often folded and sometimes filled with cheese, vegetables, or meat.
From French 'omelette,' which came from the Middle French 'alumelle' (blade), because omelettes resemble thin metal plates. The word likely evolved from 'la lumelle' misheard as 'l'alumelle' over time—a case of a word transforming through mishearing.
The French accent at breakfast literally created this word—'la lumelle' (the blade) got reanalyzed as 'l'alumelle' and became the elegant 'omelette,' which spread to English kitchens and changed how we speak about eggs forever.
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