bombé

See also: bombe, bomb, Bombe, and bombë

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bombé.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒmbeɪ/, /bɒmˈbeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Adjective

bombé (not comparable)

1. (especially of furniture) Featuring a protruding convex bulge.
   • 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 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

• “‖bombé, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.be/

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Adjective

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

1. rounded, convex

Participle

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

1. past participle of bomber

Further reading

• “bombé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

bombé (invariable)

1. rounded

Anagrams

• Bembo