timbale

 
Pronunciation: /tamˈbɑːl/

noun

  • 1a dish of finely minced meat or fish cooked with other ingredients in a pastry shell or in a mould: a chicken and avocado timbale
  • 2 (timbales) paired cylindrical drums played with sticks in Latin American dance music.

Origin:

French, 'drum' (in timbale (sense 1) with reference to the shape of the prepared dish; in timbale (sense 2) short for timbales cubains or timbales creoles 'Cuban' or 'creole drums')