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A brand name that has become a generic name for its product category. (E.g. coke, kleenex, heroin, zipper, aspirin, escalator, granola, yo-yo and linoleum.)
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Vanity and pride are different things, ... Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
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