bombé
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adjective
bombé (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 283:
References
- “‖bombé, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
French
Etymology
From resemblance (e.g. of furniture) to the shape of a stereotypical bomb; i.e. rounded.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bombé (feminine bombée, masculine plural bombés, feminine plural bombées)
Verb
bombé (feminine bombée, masculine plural bombés, feminine plural bombées)
- 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)
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