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Ottoline
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English
Alternative forms
en Ottaline
en Ottiline
Etymology
From a modified version of en Ottilie, perhaps after en Otto, en ine.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɒtəlaɪn/ /ˈɒtəliːn/ /ˈɒtəlɪn/ RP
Proper noun
en female rare.
13 June 1993 w:Perry Meisel Sweet Ottoline https://web.archive.org/web/20240311143628/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/13/books/sweet-ottoline.html With her mane of red hair, her six-foot frame and her dazzling and eccentric mode of dress, the beautiful Lady Ottoline Morrell, niece of the Fifth Duke of Portland and wife of the Liberal politician Philip Morrell, ranked among London’s chief literary hostesses from 1907 until her death in 1938.
14 June 2015 w:Robin McKie Tim Hunt: ‘I’ve been hung out to dry. They haven’t even bothered to ask for my side of affairs’ https://web.archive.org/web/20150614030903/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/tim-hunt-hung-out-to-dry-interview-mary-collins By the end of the week, however, several female scientists and commentators had written or come forward to defend Hunt, including plant biologist Professor Ottoline Leyser, of Cambridge University and a fellow FRS.
28 June 2025 Alida Becker Richly Imagined New Historical Fiction https://web.archive.org/web/20250629122107/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/books/review/new-historical-fiction.html Dora comes from very new money, Ottoline from the old, entitled upper class.