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bombe

(bŏm, bôNb)

A dessert consisting of two or more layers of variously flavored ice cream frozen in a round or melon-shaped mold.

[French (from its shape); see bomb.]

bom·bé

(bŏm′bā′, bôN′-)

adj.

Curving or bulging outward. Used of furniture.

[French, from bombe, bomb; see bomb.]

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bombe

(bɒmb)

1. (Cookery) Also called: bombe glacée a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc

2. (Cookery) a mould shaped like a bomb in which this dessert is made

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

bombé

(bɒmˈbeɪ; French bɔ̃be)

adj

(Furniture) (of furniture) having a projecting swollen shape

[French, literally: bomb-shaped, from bombe bomb]

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bombe

(bɒm, bɔ̃b)

n.

a frozen round mold of ice cream usu. filled with custard.

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

bom•bé

(bɒmˈbeɪ, bɔ̃-)

adj.

(of furniture) curving or swelling outward.

[1900–05; < French: literally, rounded like a bomb]

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