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
1890–95; < French: literally, bomb, from its shape
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
Swedish Chef: Julia Child: My food’s la bombe and yours is flawed.
From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2020
Best Baker in America The seven remaining contestants make floating island desserts, then host Scott Conant asks them to create a flaming bombe Alaska using mango as the featured flavor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 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
Turing checks the connections on the bombe as he talks.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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