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The stamp of approval that, suspiciously, always needs announcing.
means Conforming to law, rules, or accepted standards; genuine and properly authorized rather than fake or improvised.
from From Latin legitimus, lawful, rooted in lex, law — originally marking children born within a legal marriage, later expanding to anything law-sanctioned.
Birth recordsOnce defined whether a child counted at all.
Theater slangLegit theater meant scripted plays, not vaudeville.
The tellTruly legitimate things rarely insist they are.