attar

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Borrowed from Persian عطر ('ater, scent), from Arabic عِطْر (ʕiṭr, perfume).

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attar (countable and uncountable, plural attars)

  1. An essential oil extracted from flowers.
    • 1857, G[eorge] W[illiam] Septimus Piesse, “Section III”, in The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants, [], Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, →OCLC, page 78:
      Now, when orange-flowers are distilled with water, we procure the otto of the blossom, which is known commercially as oil of neroli.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia[1], page 125:
      I bequeath to you my literary work. Useless though these might be commercially, they are the attar-drops distilled from the long and futile ebullience of my life.
  2. A perfume made from this oil.

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