timbale

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tim=bale

CIDE DICTIONARY

timbale, n. [F., prop., a kettledrum; -- so named from the form of the mold used. Cf. Timbal.].

 A seasoned preparation, as of chicken, lobster, cheese, or fish, cooked in a drum-shaped mold; also, a pastry case, usually small, filled with a cooked mixture.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

timbale, n. a drum-shaped dish of minced meat or fish in a pastry shell.

Etymology

F: see TIMBAL

THESAURUS

timbale

Danish pastry, French pastry, baklava, blintz, chocolate eclair, cream puff, dowdy, eclair, pandowdy, pastry, pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, pie, puff, quiche, rosette, strudel, tart, tipsy cake, trifle, turnover, vol-au-vent