bombe

French bombe. Doublet of bomb.

bombe (plural bombes)

1. A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.
2. (chiefly in German cooking, otherwise rare) A small, cylindrical or spherical chocolate-covered confection. (Compare truffle.)
   • 1983, Bon Appétit, volume 28, page 17:

     Sous-chef Daniel O'Reagan prepares an array of tempting desserts, including a zabaglione and marzipan bombe, chocolate mousse torte and an amaretto-flavored cheesecake.

   • 2009, Tim Richardson, Sweets: A History of Candy (→ISBN), page 374:

     Austria boasts the Mozart ball, a marzipan-filled chocolate ball wrapped in a portrait of the composer. Niemetz of Vienna also manufactures a famous marshmallow bombe called the Schwedenbombe.

3. (computing) An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.

bombe c (singular definite bomben, plural indefinite bomber)

1. (military, weapon) bomb

• atombombe, a-bombe
• brintbombe, b-bombe
• benzinbombe

Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a boom”)

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃b/

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bombe f (plural bombes)

1. bomb (a device filled with explosives)
2. aerosol (either the substance or the container)
3. (colloquial) a hottie, a bombshell

   Synonyms: avion de chasse, bonnasse, canon

4. globular glass vessel; demijohn, carboy

   Synonym: bonbonne

5. bombe glacée, a frozen dessert consisting of two or more different kinds of ice cream, often with a light, frothy center made of eggs and sugar, frozen in a melon-shaped mold
6. Ellipsis of bombe météorologique or bombe météo or bombe cyclonique

• “bombe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Rhymes: -ombe

bombe f

1. plural of bomba

bombe f

1. bomb (a device filled with explosives)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.be/, [ˈbɔm.bɛ]

bombe

1. vocative singular of bombus

bombe f (plural bombes)

1. (Jersey) bomb

bombe f or m (definite singular bomba or bomben, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)

1. a bomb
2. a round spot in patterns

   • et blått slips med røde bomber

     a blue tie with red spots

3. bombe

bombe (imperative bomb, present tense bomber, simple past and past participle bomba or bombet, present participle bombende)

1. to bomb

• “bombe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

bombe f (definite singular bomba, indefinite plural bomber, definite plural bombene)

1. a bomb
2. a round spot in patterns

   • eit blått slips med raude bomber

     a blue tie with red spots

3. bombe

bombe (present tense bombar, past tense bomba, past participle bomba, passive infinitive bombast, present participle bombande, imperative bomb/bombe)

1. to bomb

• “bombe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.