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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 836 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MASCOT (Fr.
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slang: perhaps from
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Port. mascotto, "
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witch-
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craft ")  , the
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term for any
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person,
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animal, or thing supposed to bring
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luck . The word was first popularized by Edmond
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Audran through his comic
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opera La Mascotte (188o), but it had been
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common in
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France
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long before among gamblers . It has been traced back to a
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dialectic use in
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Provence and
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Gascony, where it meant something which brought luck to a
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household . The
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suggestion that it is from masque (masked or concealed), the provincial
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French for a
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child
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born with a
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caul, in allusion to the lucky destiny of such
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children, is improbable .

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