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Thibodaux[tib´udO] Pronunciation Key, city (1990 pop. 14,035), seat of Lafourche parish, SE La., on Bayou Lafourche; inc. 1838. It is the commercial center of an oil, gas, sugarcane, and farm area in the bayou country. Petro-chemicals are manufactured there. Among the many antebellum plantation houses in the area is the home (built 1790) of Chief Justice Edward Douglass White. Nicholls State Univ. is in Thibodaux. Annual Mardi Gras celebrations attract visitors.
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