bombes
- plural of bombe.
Example Sentences
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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 Lever, Charles James
