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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The menu, written in French, included poached eggs, pheasant and a mango ice cream bombe.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2023
She's also precise, save for the odd bombe thrown her way.
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
“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
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