Tous-les-mois

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tous-les-mois \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]