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Meanings of attar in anglès

Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.

Syrup.

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Usage of attar in anglès
1
The legend is as indestructible as the odour of attar of roses.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
2
It takes 250 pounds of rose petals for an ounce of attar.
The new yorker
3
Pretend to yourself that it was attar of roses, and forget her.
The Grey Cloak
4
Five guineas have been often paid for one ounce of attar of roses.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in...
5
The scent of alpine herbs and attar of roses hung in the air.
The Guardian
6
Up close, she smelled of attar of roses with a hint of formaldehyde.
The Bride Wore Black Leather
7
You surely don't expect to be regaled with incense or attar of roses.
Molly Bawn
8
Lest the breezes send it flying, the girls lay the powder with sprinkled attar.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
9
There is a considerable trade in tobacco, attar of roses, shawls, cotton wool, etc.
A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
10
Here is naught but henna and a suspicion of attar.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
11
Smith wafting his hanky, taking a scent of attar of roses up the nostrils.
A singular man
12
The principal exports are cereals, live stock, homespuns, hides, cheese, eggs, attar of roses.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" ...
13
Oh, he was trying to make attar of rose of himself in the garden.
The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories
14
The flesh was absent altogether; it was love rarefied and refined to its highest attar.
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament
15
Alex took her hand and drew her to him, inhaling deeply of her rose attar.
Arabian nights with a rake
16
It was an acrid mixture of incense, of attar of roses, with every imaginable putrescence.
The Magician
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