Meanings
- USnot comparablestandardUS standard spelling of omeletteless.
“Endless omelets” (over 500 varieties) comprise most of the menu at this East Side French “cholesterol heaven” that’s been around since 1938 in varying locations; critics cluck it’s “fussy” and “very, very expensive”, while late risers crow about its omeletless dinner menu.
1999, “Mme. Romaine de Lyon”, in ZagatSurvey 2000: New York City Restaurants, New York, N.Y.: Zagat Survey, →ISBN, page 1212 more examples
And thereafter the name and fame of the man with the thousand dozen eggs began to spread through the land. […] Dyea and Skaguay took an interest in his being, and questioned his progress from every man who came over the passes. While Dawson—golden, omeletless Dawson—fretted and worried, and waylaid every chance arrival for word of him.
1903 March, Jack London, “The One Thousand Dozen”, in The National Magazine […], volume XVII, number 6, Boston, Mass.: W. W. Potter Co., →OCLC, page 708, column 1There are not enough eggs produced as yet in all of Michigan to supply the needs of our metropolis, so that we have to go out even so far as California for our hen food. We should be largely cakeless and omeletless without the refrigerator cars that rush the cackle starters to our daily tables.
1924, “Industry’s Dependence on the Railroads”, in John A. Russell, editor, Michigan Manufacturer and Financial Record, volume 33, Detroit, Mich.: Manufacturer Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, column 2
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