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ottar

British  
/ ˈɒtə /

noun

  1. a variant of attar

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Melt one ounce of white wax, add two ounces of juice of lily-bulbs, two ounces of honey, two drams of rose-water, and a drop or two of ottar of roses.

From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by Young, John H.

With these mix twelve drops of ottar of roses.

From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by Young, John H.

Five ounces oil of sweet almonds, three ounces spermaceti, half an ounce of white wax, and three to five drops ottar of roses.

From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by Young, John H.

We got the boats alongside, and sent our party on the way to the hotels, for the odor of the basin was not that of ottar of roses.

From Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi by Optic, Oliver

My father was an interpreter at the Sublime Porte, carrying on at the same time quite a lucrative trade in ottar of roses and silk goods.

From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm