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6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure
originBorrowed from French mascotte, from Occitan mascòta (“sortilege”), feminine diminutive of masca (“witch”), from Old Occitan masca, from Medieval Latin masca (“specter, nightmare”). More at mask.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0