timbale noun. [tam'bɑ:l, tbal (pl. same); in sense 3 tɪm'bɑ:li] E19.
[French: see TIMBAL In sense 3, perh. from Spanish timbal, pl. timbales of same origin.]
1. A drum-shaped dish made of finely minced meat, fish, etc., cooked in a pastry crust or a mould. Also (in full timbale mould), the mould or crust in which this dish is served. E19.

2. Entomology. A membrane which forms part of the sound-producing organ in various insects, as the cicada. M19.

3. In pl. Two single-headed drums played as a pair with drumsticks. E20.

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