omelette: [17] The omelette seems to have been named for its thinness, like a sheet of metal. The word was borrowed from French omelette, the modern descendant of Old French amelette. This meant literally ‘thin sheet of metal’, and was an alteration, by metathesis (the reversal of sounds) of alumette. This in turn was a variant of alumelle, which arose through the mistaking of la lemelle ‘the blade’ as l’alemelle. And lemelle goes back to Latin lāmella ‘thin sheet of metal’, a diminutive form of lāmina ‘plate, layer’ (from which English gets laminate [17]). => laminate
双语例句
1. Place the omelette under a gentle grill until the top is set.
将煎蛋饼放在烤架下用文火烘烤，直到表面凝固。
来自柯林斯例句
2. This delicious variation on an omelette is quick and easy to prepare.
