omlet

omlet (plural omlets)

1. Obsolete spelling of omelette.
   • 1665, Robert May, The Accomplisht Cook, or The Art and Mystery of Cookery, London: R. Wood, for Nath Brooke, , page 434:

     Take young and tender ſparagus, break or cut them in ſmall pieces, and half fry them brown in butter, put into them eggs beaten with ſalt, and thus make your omlet. Or boil them in water and ſalt, then fry them in ſweet butter, put the eggs to them, and make an omlet, diſh it, and put a drop or two of vinegar or verjuyce on it.

   • 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets., London: B. Tooke , page 18:

     Clary, Horminum, when tender not to be rejected, and in Omlets, made up with Cream, fried in ſweet Butter, and eaten with Sugar, Juice of Orange, or Limon.

   • 1796 May, “Some Particulars respecting the Capture and Death of Charette, the famous Royalist General of La Vendée; with Sketches of his Character”, in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine: or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, part I, Dublin: Joseph Walker, , page 411, column 1:

     It was remarked to him that he had cauſed the death of a great many perſons. Yes, he replied, omlets are not made without breaking eggs.

2. Misspelling of omelette.

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Borrowed from French omelette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔm.lɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔmlɛt
• Syllabification: om‧let

omlet m inan (diminutive omlecik)

1. omelette

• omlet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• omlet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From French omelette.

òmlet m (Cyrillic spelling о̀млет)

1. omelette

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اومله‌ت or اوملت. Borrowed from French omelette.

omlet (definite accusative omleti, plural omletler)

1. omelette