omelette
- n beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly
- A Maltese omelette might be made out of the gems from Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon.
- One morning at the recent Sundance Film Festival, the co-chairman of Miramax Films eagerly devoured a greasy omelette (the secret ingredient: cholesterol) while schmoozing with a .
- In both cases, you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.