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Texian
is always a great word to know.
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
Etymonline
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.
EXPANDTex-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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