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mascot|ˈmæskɒt|
Also 9 mascotte.
[ad. provincial F. mascotte, perh. cogn. with mod.Pr. masco witch. The word was brought into notice by E. Audran's opera ‘La Mascotte’, played 29 Dec. 1880.]
A person, or a thing, animate or inanimate, supposed to bring luck.
1881Farnie & Reece Mascotte i. 4 Ah! blest their lot whom fate shall send A true Mascotte, a fairy friend!.. Luck's his for ever! 1884Lisbon (Dakota) Clipper 11 Dec. 7 This dining room girl..lays claim to being a mascot. 1899E. Phillpotts Human Boy 118 That rat's a sort of ‘mascotte’ to me. A ‘mascotte’ 's a thing that brings luck. 1918E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 328 Each man had his own little fetish. It was known as the pocket-piece or mascot. In some cases it might be a dice or a playing-card... In other cases it might be a locket, then again a medal, while many of us carried little wooden dolls. 1921R. Hichens Spirit of Time vi. 106 ‘She says you brought her luck.’.. ‘I didn't know I was a mascot,’ he remarked. 1955Halsbury's Statutory Instruments II. 2276 No mascot shall be carried by a motor vehicle..where it is likely to strike any person with whom the vehicle may collide. 1975Times 6 June 17/4 Christie's..launched a new collecting field yesterday with a sale of motoring mascots, the figurines mounted on car bonnets.
attrib.1898Speaker 31 Dec. 783/2 His mascot snakes that were kept, buried in flannel, in an oblong glass-topped box. |