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Pompe may refer to:
- Annelie Pompe (born 1980), an adventurer and athlete from Mölndal, Sweden
- Calliotropis pompe, a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliotropidae
- J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort (1829–1908), a Dutch physician based in Nagasaki, Japan
- Johann Pompe (1901–1945), a Dutch pathologist
- Glycogen storage disease type II, also called Pompe disease
- Rue de la Pompe, a street in Paris, France, which was named after the pump which served water to the castle of Muette
- Rue de la Pompe (Paris Métro), a station on line 9 of the Paris Métro, named after the Rue de la Pompe
Usage examples of "pompe".
There was a certaine man in the court of the Emperour, which had many offices, and in great favour, who at last by the envy of divers persons, was banished away and compelled to forsake the court : his wife Platina, a woman of rare faith and singular shamefastnes having borne ten children to her husband, despised all worldly Pompe and delicacy, and determined to follow her husband, and to be partaker of his perils and danger, wherefore shee cut off her haire, disguised her selfe like a man, and tooke with her all her treasure, passing through the hands of the souldiers, and the naked swords without any feare, whereby she endured many miseries, and was partaker of much affliction, to save the life of her husband, such was her love which she bare unto him.
When the day of triumph came, I was led with great pompe and benevolence to the appointed place, where when I was brought, I first saw the preamble of that triumph, dedicated with dancers and merry taunting jests, and in the meane season was placed before the gate of the Theater, whereas on the one side I saw the greene and fresh grasse growing before the entry thereof, whereon I greatly desired to feed: on the other side I conceived a great delectation to see when the Theater gates were opened, how all things was finely prepared and set forth: For there I might see young children and maidens in the flowre of their youth of excellent beauty, and attired gorgiously, dancing and mooved in comely order, according to the order of Grecia, for sometime they would dance in length, sometime round together, sometime divide themselves into foure parts, and sometime loose hands on every side: but when the trumpet gave warning that every man should retire to his place, then began the triumph to appeare.
Così mi scossi, andai alle pompe e mi misi all'opera con la massima energia.
On leaving home on the morning of the fourth day of the mobilization Desnoyers, instead of betaking himself to the centre of the city, went in the opposite direction toward the rue de la Pompe.
Who so in pompe of proud estate (quoth she)Does swim, and bathes himselfe in courtly blis,Does waste his dayes in darke obscuritee,And in obliuion euer buried is:Where ease abounds, yt's eath to doe amis.
The studio of the rue de la Pompe was about to witness the mad and desperate revels of a castaway bark wellstocked with provisions.