bombe
noun
a round or melon-shaped frozen mold made from a combination of ice creams, mousses, or ices.
bombe
1 American
[bom, bomb, bawn b]
/ bɒm, bɒmb, bɔ̃b /
noun
-
bombes
plural
bombé
2
American
[bom-bay, bawn -bay]
/ bɒmˈbeɪ, bɔ̃ˈbeɪ /
adjective
Furniture.
bombe
1
British
/ bɒmb /
noun
-
Also called: bombe glacée. a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
-
a mould shaped like a bomb in which this dessert is made
bombé
2
British
/ bɔ̃be, bɒmˈbeɪ /
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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 )
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Proving this was Hollywood's characteristically vague advice for the bombe: "You only get one shot at this. Try not to mess it up."
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022
During World War II Turing worked at the secret Bletchley Park code-breaking center, where he helped crack Nazi Germany's secret codes by creating the "Turing bombe," a forerunner of modern computers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2019
She operated an electro-mechanical machine , known as a "bombe," to decipher signals the German armed forces sent out from its sophisticated Enigma encryption machines.
From Fox News ● Sep. 25, 2018
In real life, the machine, known as the bombe, was built collaboratively, based on a device already in use by Polish mathematicians working to decode Enigma.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2015
“It was Welchman’s insight to add those cross wires. Lets the bombe check more combinations at once.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
They are small men, but well shaped, not quite so bombé, but even more lithe-looking than Ghurkas, Captain K. says they are as good for hill-work; in fact, if it is possible, they are better!
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
While Alan Turing was organizing large-scale attacks on enigma codes using algorithms and large electromechanical devices called bombes, Elizebeth was more narrowly focused on a couple of Enigma’s systems being used by Nazi spies.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 7, 2017
His bombes turned Bletchley Park into a codebreaking factory.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2012
But bombes were costly and time-consuming to run, and there were nowhere near enough of them, so British code breakers were also solving many Enigma messages—fully or in part—with pencil, paper, and know-how.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
"No, mille bombes, that I haven't—as you shall soon see!"
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
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