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lemelle
Old French · medieval
"a thin blade or plate"
a thin blade or plate, describing the dish's flat, folded shape
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omelette
French · 1500s
"a folded dish of beaten eggs"
reshaped in French for the folded beaten-egg dish
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omelette
English · 1600s
"a dish of beaten eggs cooked and folded"
settled as the English word for the beaten-egg dish
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