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mascot

[ mas-kot, -kuht ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck:
The U.S. Navy mascot is a goat.

mascot

/ ˈmæskət /

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Origin of mascot¹

1880–85; < French mascotte < Provençal mascoto talisman, charm, derivative of masco sorceress. See mask

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Origin of mascot¹

C19: from French mascotte, from Provençal mascotto charm, from masco witch

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The support of a mascot has confused Christianity and sports.

Joe Camel: For about a decade beginning in 1987, Camel started to market its products using a mascot called “Old Joe.”

What if a Serb mortar team carried a little ginger cat as their mascot?

The fact is, the mascot may be the quiet kid sitting next to you in class with his head down.

Greenbaum says Michael Hostetter, the most introverted mascot of the bunch, is also the most unpredictably exciting.

They take him along whenever they play games, thinking the mascot helps them to win.

It's a kind of obsession, and it often means life or death, whether the mascot can stand the strain of the situation.

Mascot means simply a temple, and is used by the Yezidis for mosques and churches as well as for their own shrine.

It is both a souvenir, and a mascot; for the hair is from the head of my girl chum Margot.

We are here to drink a bottle of wine together, mademoiselle and I, mademoiselle who was at once my instructress and my mascot.

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