texas
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- //ˈtɛk.səs//
- //ˈtɛk.sɪs//
- //ˈtɛk.sɪz//
The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.
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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.
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.
Etimologia
From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.
Forme
- plurale
- texases