mascotte

mascotte (plural mascottes)

1. Archaic form of mascot (“bringer of good luck”).

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mascotte f or m (plural mascottes, diminutive mascotje n or mascottetje n)

1. mascot

Borrowed from Provençal mascoto, from masco (“witch”), from Old Occitan masca, from Medieval Latin masca, from a stem *maska, *mask- (“black”) believed to be of Pre-Indo-European origin giving rise to words meaning "witch, wizard, sorcerer.".

• IPA^(key): /mas.kɔt/

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mascotte f (plural mascottes)

1. mascot (something used to symbolize a sports team or other group)

• “mascotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• mascotte on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

mascotte f (invariable)

1. mascot