bombé
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɒmbeɪ/, /bɒmˈbeɪ/
Adjective
bombé (not comparable)
- (especially of furniture) Featuring a protruding convex bulge.
- 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 283:
- The bombé writing-desk had brass inlay and a marble top, a Bartlett print of Lord Byron's Childe Harold hung above the pristine twin beds.
- 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 283:
French
Etymology
From resemblance (e.g. of furniture) to the shape of a stereotypical bomb; i.e. rounded.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔ̃be/
Verb
bombé m (feminine singular bombée, masculine plural bombés, feminine plural bombées)
- past participle of bomber
Further reading
- “bombé” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
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