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[syn: timbale, timbale case]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Timbale \Tim`bale"\, n. [F., prop., a kettledrum; -- so named
from the form of the mold used. Cf. Timbal.] (Cookery)
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.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
timbale
n 1: individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich
creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell
2: small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods [syn:
timbale, timbale case]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "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