Definition of Mascots

1. Noun. (plural of mascot) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mascots

1. mascot [n] - See also: mascot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mascots

mascaron
mascarons
mascarpone
mascarpones
maschaladenitis
maschale
maschalephidrosis
maschaloncus
maschalyperidrosis
mascle
mascled
mascles
mascon
mascons
mascot
mascots (current term)
mascotte
masculate
masculated
masculates
masculating
masculation
masculine pelvis
masculine protest
masculine rhyme
masculine rhymes
masculinely
masculineness

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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