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bombe

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bombe  (bm, bôb)
n.
A dessert consisting of two or more layers of variously flavored ice cream frozen in a round or melon-shaped mold.

[French (from its shape); see bomb.]

bombe [bɒmb]
n
1. (Cookery) Also called bombe glacée a dessert of ice cream lined or filled with custard, cake crumbs, etc
2. (Cookery) a mould shaped like a bomb in which this dessert is made
[from French, literally: bomb; from its rounded shape]


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