: a frozen dessert usually containing ice cream and formed in layers in a mold
bom·bé
(ˌ)bäm-ˈbā 
(ˌ)bōⁿ-
variants
or bombe
: having outward curving lines
—usually used of furniture
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IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2025
The bombe chest, or as the French call it, the commode, is standard.
—Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
The Bletchley Declaration is, in itself, nowhere near as much of a game changer as Turing’s bombe was.
—Bydavid Meyer, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
On a recent afternoon, the green velvet banquette hosts a younger crowd for asparagus canapes, coronation chicken salad, vanilla macarons, chocolate bombes, and the requisite scones.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
What was the bombe machine?
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
The fish is lacquered like an antique bombe chest, with smooth mahogany curves and gnarled curlicues of batter along the edges.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Oct. 2021
Right, the now-famous bombe machines enabled Allied cryptographers to decode more than 3,000 enemy messages per day.
—Tony Rothman, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2015
The technical challenge also proved daunting as the bakers were tasked with making a summer pudding bombe.
—Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
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These techniques are designed to frustrate even the immense potential of quantum computing, a technology light-years beyond the electromechanical bombe that Turing used to break the German Enigma cipher.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2025
The bombe chest, or as the French call it, the commode, is standard.
—Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
The Bletchley Declaration is, in itself, nowhere near as much of a game changer as Turing’s bombe was.
—Bydavid Meyer, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
On a recent afternoon, the green velvet banquette hosts a younger crowd for asparagus canapes, coronation chicken salad, vanilla macarons, chocolate bombes, and the requisite scones.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
What was the bombe machine?
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
The fish is lacquered like an antique bombe chest, with smooth mahogany curves and gnarled curlicues of batter along the edges.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Oct. 2021
Right, the now-famous bombe machines enabled Allied cryptographers to decode more than 3,000 enemy messages per day.
—Tony Rothman, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2015
The technical challenge also proved daunting as the bakers were tasked with making a summer pudding bombe.
—Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
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“Bombe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bombe. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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