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bombe

1

[ bom, bomb; French bawnb ]

noun

plural bombes
  1. a round or melon-shaped frozen mold made from a combination of ice creams, mousses, or ices.


dzé

2

[ bom-bey; French bawn-bey ]

adjective

Furniture.
  1. curving or swelling outward.

bombe

1

/ ɒ /

noun

  1. Also calledbombe glacée a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
  2. a mould shaped like a bomb in which this dessert is made
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

dzé

2

/ bɔ̃be; bɒmˈbeɪ /

adjective

  1. (of furniture) having a projecting swollen shape
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bombe1

1890–95; < French: literally, bomb, from its shape

Origin of bombe2

1900–05; < French: literally, rounded like a bomb ( bombe bomb + adj. suffix < Latin -ٳܲ -ate 1 )
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bombe1

C19: from French, literally: bomb ; from its rounded shape

Origin of bombe2

French, literally: bomb-shaped, from bombe bomb
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Deltapoll is working with tech start-up Bombe, which uses AI to analyse polling data collected from smaller samples.

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Eagle-eyed fans — including the food magazine “Cherry Bombe” — noticed that the “Food Network” host and author had quietly changed her Instagram bio section to read: “Memoir coming out October 1st 2024.”

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The menu, written in French, included poached eggs, pheasant and a mango ice cream bombe.

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To crack it, mathematician Alan Turing — building on work done by Polish codebreakers — developed the “Turing bombe,” a forerunner of modern computers.

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Three years later he began working at Bletchley Park, in Buckinghamshire, where he helped develop the Bombe machine, which was capable of breaking secret German military messages sent using the Enigma machine.

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