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texas (tek′səs)

noun

a structure on the hurricane deck of a steamboat, containing the officers' quarters, etc. and having the pilothouse on top or in front

Etymology: name given to officers' quarters on Mississippi steamboats because they were the largest cabins

Texas definition

Texas (tek′səs)

state of the SW U.S., on the Gulf of Mexico & the Mexican border: admitted, 1845; 261,797 sq mi (678,052 sq km); pop. 20,852,000; cap. Austin: abbrev. TX or Tex

Etymology: Sp Texas, earlier pronounced (tā·s̸häs), orig. an ethnic name < Caddo tayša, friends, allies

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texas Synonyms

Texas

n.

Lone Star State, Jumbo State, Longhorn State; see South, Southwest, United States.


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It was part of theTexas ritual† We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

-Ferber, Edna

Thethreemost overratedthingsintheworldarethestate of Texas, the FBI, and hunting trophies.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

The cowboys had lived for months under the great bowl of the sky, and yet the Montana skies seemed deeper than the skies of Texas or Nebraska. Their depth and blueness robbed even the sun of its harsh forceöit seemed smaller, in the vastness, and the whole sky no longer turned white at noon as it had in the lower plains. Always, somewhere to the north, there was a swath of blueness, with white cloads floating in it like petals in a pond. 537

-McMurtry, LarryJeff

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