bombé

See also: bombe, bomb, Bombe, and bombë

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bombé.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɒmbeɪ/, /bɒmˈbeɪ/

Adjective

bombé (not comparable)

  1. (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.

References


French

Etymology

From resemblance (e.g. of furniture) to the shape of a stereotypical bomb; i.e. rounded.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔ̃be/

Adjective

bombé (feminine singular bombée, masculine plural bombés, feminine plural bombées)

  1. rounded, convex

Verb

bombé m (feminine singular bombée, masculine plural bombés, feminine plural bombées)

  1. past participle of bomber

Further reading


Italian

Adjective

bombé (invariable)

  1. rounded
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