otto
noun
ottos
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pluralof otto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It consists of wash-leather steeped in ottos of neroli, rose, santal, lavender, verbena, bergamot, cloves, and cinnamon, subsequently smeared with civet and musk.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis
First dissolve the ottos in the spirit, then add the rose-water.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
Oils, properly so called, unite with salifiable bases and form soap; whereas the essential or volatile oils, i.e. what we would please to call the ottos, do no such thing.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
Some of the ottos sent by a native perfumer of Benares were deemed worthy of honorable mention.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
The modern aromatic vinegar is the concentrated acetic acid aromatized with various ottos, camphor, &c., thus—
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
