Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A custardlike dish of cheese, chicken, fish, or vegetables baked in a drum-shaped pastry mold.
  • noun The pastry mold in which this food is baked.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In cookery, a confection of pastry with various fillings: so called from the French name of the mold it takes its shape from.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A drum-shaped mould used to cook food.
  • noun An individual serving of food so cooked.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods
  • noun individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, timbal, mold; see timbal.]

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From French timbale.

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