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  1. Industrial deepwater port (oil refining,
  2. shipbuilding, brass, chemicals) in Texas,
  3. USA, 24 km/15 mi SE of Beaumont; population
  4. (1980) 61,000. Founded 1895, it gained
  5. importance with the discovery of petroleum
  6. near Beaumont in 1901.
  7.