bombé
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bombé (not comparable)
- (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 edit
- “‖bombé, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
French edit
Etymology edit
From resemblance (e.g. of furniture) to the shape of a stereotypical bomb; i.e. rounded.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bombé (feminine bombée, masculine plural bombés, feminine plural bombées)
Participle edit
bombé (feminine bombée, masculine plural bombés, feminine plural bombées)
- past participle of bomber
Further reading edit
- “bombé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Adjective edit
bombé (invariable)