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timbale
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-ventFor further exploring for "timbale" in Webster Dictionary Online