ottar
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And when it is of mud and of blood, when it offends the nostrils, so much the worse; I, for one, will not sprinkle it with ottar of rose.
From The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel by Saltus, Edgar
While we were driving to the ball I asked her about the perfumed gloves with an odor like sandal-wood or like ottar of roses.
From A Few Short Sketches by Sherley, George Douglass
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
The orange blossom is proverbially chosen for the bridal wreath, and, from the same flower, an essential oil is extracted hardly less esteemed than the celebrated ottar of roses.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
These poems differ from others as ottar of roses differs from ordinary rose-water, the close-packed essence from the thin, diluted mixture.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John
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