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