Ottoline

Proper noun

Ottoline

1. A female given name of rare usage.
   • 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 1938.1993 June 13, Perry Meisel, “Sweet Ottoline”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2024
   • 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.2015 June 14, Robin McKie, “Tim Hunt: ‘I’ve been hung out to dry. They haven’t even bothered to ask for my side of affairs’”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...