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Definition of Mascots
1. mascot [n] - See also: mascot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mascots
Literary usage of Mascots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shellproof Mack: An American's Fighting Story by Arthur James Mack (1918)
"He has n't the cold intellectual efficiency of the 'orrible 'Un and he therefore
insists upon keeping a variety of pets and mascots ..."
2. Commercial Advertising: Six Lectures at the London School of Economics and by Thomas Russell (1919)
"... that are dangerous—The substitution problem—Two kinds of substitution—When
substitution is illegal—How to checkmate substitution—mascots—The essential ..."
3. The Child and Childhood in Folk Thought: (The Child in Primative Culture) by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1896)
"Even great actors, stock-brokers, and politicians have their mascots. We hear
also of mascots of regiments and of ships. A little hunchback, a dwarf, ..."
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