Timbre

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see 1st Timber.

II. Timbre ·noun The crest on a coat of arms.

III. Timbre ·noun The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. ·see Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.