| timbale | (n) individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell |
| timbale | (n) small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods, Syn. timbale case |
| Timbale | ‖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. ] |