tous-les-mois

noun

A kind of starch with large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot or used for adulterating cocoa, made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably Canna edulis.

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tous-les-mois starch
OriginFrench tous les mois →
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Meanings

nountous-les-mois (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountableA kind of starch with large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot or used for adulterating cocoa, made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably Canna edulis.

    The East India arrowroot was considered the best; and the French West India arrowroot not so good. The East India arrowroot had the finest grains; the second finest were those from the potato; and third the tous les mois or French West India arrowroot; […]

    1845, Edwin Lankester, “Lecture II. Starch—Potato—Arrow-root—Tapioca—Protein—Wheat—Maize—Rice.”, in Report of Lectures on the Natural History of Plants Yielding Food; […], London: John Churchill, […], →OCLC, page 16

    Synonyms: tous-les-mois starch

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA kind of starch with large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot or used for adulterating cocoa, made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably Canna edulis.

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tous-les-mois starch
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tous-les-mois starch

Origin

  1. Frenchtous les mois“all the months, i.e. every month”
  2. Englishtous-les-mois

From French tous les mois (“all the months, i.e. every month”), since the tubers of the plant are edible throughout the year.

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