Noun: bombe
| Singular | bombe |
| Plural | bombes |
Sample Sentences
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Sous-chef Daniel O'Reagan prepares an array of tempting desserts, including a zabaglione and marzipan bombe, chocolate mousse torte and an amaretto-flavored cheesecake. [1983, Bon Appétit, volume 28, page 17]
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The best dessert by far is the chocolate-caramel bombe, a gorgeous chocolate-dusted dome with a heart of passion fruit crème brûlée. [2000, New York Times, The New York Times Guide to New York City 2001, page 454]
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Austria boasts the Mozart ball, a marzipan-filled chocolate ball wrapped in a portrait of the composer. Niemetz of Vienna also manufactures a famous marshmallow bombe called the Schwedenbombe. [2009, Tim Richardson, Sweets: A History of Candy, page 374]
Nouns inflected like bombe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French bombe. Doublet of bomb. See: French Nouns '
bombe'.