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adjective Furniture.
curving or swelling outward.
Also, bombed.
Compare swell front.
Origin:
1900–05; < French: literally, rounded like a bomb (bombe bomb + -é adj. suffix < Latin -ātus -ate1)
1900–05; < French: literally, rounded like a bomb (bombe bomb + -é adj. suffix < Latin -ātus -ate1)
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bombe (bɒmb) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: bombe glacée a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc |
| 2. | a mould shaped like a bomb in which this dessert is made |
| [C19: from French, literally: | |
| bombé (bɒmˈbeɪ, French bɔ̃be) | |
| —adj | |
| (of furniture) having a projecting swollen shape | |
| [French, literally: bomb-shaped, from bombe | |
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