texas

plural texases

1. The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.

   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.

   1866, New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)

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   Now Will saw lights ahead and they were to the landing where the steamboats lay moored, banking the river front solidly as far as the ... whose lights rose tier upon tier from main deck to the cupola-like pilot houses atop the texases.

   1991, Norman A. Fox, The Rawhide Years

1. A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.

   Approximately 100 Louisville-based KFC corporate employees will relocate to Texas over the next six months.

   2025 February 19, Jordan Valinsky, “KFC is leaving Kentucky”, in CNN Business

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   The posterists of Austin chronicled the changing social landscape and graphically redefined Texas for the rest of the country and the world […]

   2015, Alan Schaefer, Joe Nick Patoski, Nels Jacobson, Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982, page 17

2. Several places in the United States:
   1. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
   2. A hamlet in Oswego County, New York.
   3. An unincorporated community in Marion County, Alabama.
   4. An unincorporated community in Heard County, Georgia.
   5. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Kentucky.
   6. An unincorporated community in Stone County, Mississippi.
   7. An unincorporated community in Henry County, Ohio.
   8. An unincorporated community in Tucker County, West Virginia.
   9. A number of townships, listed under Texas Township.
3. A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the Queensland town.
4. A rural town in southeastern Queensland, Australia, adjacent to the New South Wales locality.
5. The University of Texas at Austin.
6. rareA unisex given name transferred from the place name.
7. historicalA former sovereign country in North America that existed from 1836 to 1846.
8. A surname.