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1855–60; after Texas, from the fact that the officers' accommodation was the most spacious on the Mississippi steamboats, on which cabins were named after states
1855–60; after Texas, from the fact that the officers' accommodation was the most spacious on the Mississippi steamboats, on which cabins were named after states
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World English Dictionary
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| Tex, Abbreviation: TX a state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid Sacramento and Davis Mountains of the southwest; a major producer of cotton, rice, and livestock; the chief US producer of oil and gas; a leading world supplier of sulphur. Capital: Austin. Pop: 22 118 509 (2003 est). Area: 678 927 sq km (262 134 sq miles) | |
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Word Origin & History
Texas
Mexican province, briefly an independent nation and now a U.S. state, from Sp. Texas, Tejas, earlier pronounced "ta-shas," originally an ethnic name, from Caddo (eastern Texas Indian tribe) taysha "friends, allies," written by the Spanish as a plural. Tex as a nickname for a Texan is recorded from 1909.
Tex-Mex "of Mexican-Texan origin" is recorded from 1949, from Texan + Mexican. An earlier noun for "Texan of Mexican background" was Texican (1863). Baseball Texas-leaguer is recorded from 1905.
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
Texas definition
State in the southwestern United States bordered by Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas and Louisiana to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to the south, and New Mexico to the west. Its capital is Austin, and its largest city is Houston.
Note: One of the border states with Mexico; Mexican aliens often cross the border into Texas.
Note: One of the Confederate states during the Civil War.
Note: Long the largest state, it became second largest with the admission of Alaska as the forty-ninth state in 1959.
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Was recorded and was available at the gloria swanson archives at the university of texas.
Portions of the city to the east of cedar bayou reside in chambers county, texas.
It was the first commercially significant oilfield find in texas.
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