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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She shared recipes for tangy apricot Bavarian whip, fried rice medley and bombe Alaska.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2023
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
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 Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)
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
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