An outward-swelling kettle-base (swelling or bulging front and/or sides) construction for chests of drawers and secretaries, found on the Chippendale and Louis XV styles, as well as some American Late Colonial
A French term used to describe a swelling curve: the fronts of some later-18th century commodes and chests of drawers curve from top to bottom as well as from side to side; such fronts are called bombe