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Webster 1913 Edition


Tous-les-mois

Tousˊ-lesˊ-mois′

,
Noun.
[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.