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texas

tex.as \'tek-s*s, -siz\ n [Texas, state of U.S.; fr. the naming of cabins 
   on Mississippi steamboats] after states, the officers' cabins being the 
   largest : a structure on the awning deck of a steamer containing the 
   officers' cab ins and having the pilothouse in front or on top