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Texas Definition

texas

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English

Etymology

From the practice of naming cabins after U.S. states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.

Noun

texas (plural texases)

  1. the top-most cabin deck on a steamboat
    1866: New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)
    She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

texās

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of texō

 

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