tous-les-mois

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

tous-les-mois, n. [F., all the months, i. e., every month.].

 A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably Canna edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tous-les-mois, n.
1 food starch obtained from tubers of a canna, Canna indica.
2 this plant.

Etymology

F, lit. = every month, prob. corrupt. of W.Ind. toloman