eggs Benedict
noun (sometimes lowercase)
a dish consisting of toast or toasted halves of English muffin covered with a thin slice of fried or broiled ham, poached eggs, and a topping of hollandaise sauce.
Origin of eggs Benedict
First recorded in 1925–30; allegedly after a patron of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, for whom the dish was first made (in some accounts, by Oscar Tschirky (1866–1950), the hotel's maitre d')
British Dictionary definitions for eggs benedict
eggs Benedict
pl n
a dish consisting of toast, covered with a slice of ham, poached egg, and hollandaise sauce