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From: Stan Brown <>
Subject: Re: Saintly Perfume? (Crosspost)
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 13:46:40 -0400

Peter Lacey wrote:
>
> I can't help with the history, but the word that you render as 'otto'
> is almost certainly 'attar'.

>From the plaintiff's attorney's song in _Trial by Jury_:
Breathing concentrated otto
An existence a la Watteau.

Perhaps "otto" is an acceptable variant? It's certainly pronounced like
the personal name Otto in the song.

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