bombe

¹ American  

[bom, bomb, bawnb] / bɒm, bɒmb, bɔ̃b /

noun

plural

bombes

1. a round or melon-shaped frozen mold made from a combination of ice creams, mousses, or ices.

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bombé ² American  

[bom-bey, bawn-bey] / bɒmˈbeɪ, bɔ̃ˈbeɪ /

adjective

Furniture.

1. curving or swelling outward.

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bombe ¹ British  

/ bɒmb /

noun

1. Also called: bombe glacée.  a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc

2. a mould shaped like a bomb in which this dessert is made

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bombé ² British  

/ bɔ̃be, bɒmˈbeɪ /

adjective

1. (of furniture) having a projecting swollen shape

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Etymology

Origin of bombe¹

1890–95; < French: literally, bomb, from its shape

Origin of bombé²

1900–05; < French: literally, rounded like a bomb ( bombe bomb + -é adj. suffix < Latin -ātus -ate ¹ )

Example Sentences

Deltapoll is working with tech start-up Bombe, which uses AI to analyse polling data collected from smaller samples.

From BBC

Eagle-eyed fans — including the food magazine “Cherry Bombe” — noticed that the “Food Network” host and author had quietly changed her Instagram bio section to read: “Memoir coming out October 1st 2024.”

From Salon

The menu, written in French, included poached eggs, pheasant and a mango ice cream bombe.

From BBC

To crack it, mathematician Alan Turing — building on work done by Polish codebreakers — developed the “Turing bombe,” a forerunner of modern computers.

From Seattle Times

Three years later he began working at Bletchley Park, in Buckinghamshire, where he helped develop the Bombe machine, which was capable of breaking secret German military messages sent using the Enigma machine.

From BBC