Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dessert consisting of two or more layers of variously flavored ice cream frozen in a round or melon-shaped mold.
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- noun A
dessert made fromice cream frozen in amold . - noun computing An
electromechanical device used in earlycryptanalysis .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ices we have, and we have Granger's; but here is ice in every variety, from the solid "bombe" -- which we strongly recommend ladies to bear in mind next time -- to the appetizing _Ponch à la Romaine_!
The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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Make Blog has a great roundup of links and coverage for the opening of Bletchley Park's recreation of the Polish "bombe" code-cracking devices that were instrumental in breaking the German Enigma cipher in World War II.
Boing Boing 2009
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Heroes of Bletchley included Tommy Flowers, who built one of the world's first programmable computers, Colossus, largely using his own funds, and Dr Alan Turing, who designed the bombe cryptanalysis machines.
Boing Boing 2009
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NOTE: The cooled curd, whipped cream and meringue also make a delicious frozen bombe: Roughly mash everything together and freeze in a metal bowl for at least 4 hours.
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Italiano · Filippine: il paese paralizzato dalla paura delle bombe
Global Voices in English » Philippines: Bomb scare grips the country 2009
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The coconut-mousse bombe: Silly name aside, it is, in fact, the bomb -- a cloud-like concoction of coconut essence around a sphere of semi-sweet chocolate, plated atop wafer-thin pineapple slices, nuzzled against a grown up version of gulab jamun -- a doughnut-like pillow of a cake, sans the sweet sauce.
Sheila Marikar: Tamarind Tribeca: The Indian Foodie's Mecca 2010
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Gulab jamun is ordered, as is the coconut-mousse bombe.
Sheila Marikar: Tamarind Tribeca: The Indian Foodie's Mecca 2010
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Two Pakistani soldiers have been died and three were injured in a suicide bombe attack near an army vehicle here on Thursday, eye witnesses say.
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Situated at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, he designed a machine – the bombe - that could decipher Nazi enigma messages much faster than any other machine before it.
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Situated at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, he designed a machine – the bombe - that could decipher Nazi enigma messages much faster than any other machine before it.
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