1845 Niles' National Reg. 22 Feb. 1/2 They are loud in demanding his life as forfeited by his treachery in his recent assaults upon Puebla... The Pueblans most spiritedly withstood every assault.

1979 Jrnl. Latin-Amer. Stud. 11 247 Puebla's corregidor or his representative..would then assign each Pueblan receiving Indian labor his allotment.

2001 C. Lomnitz Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico vii. 155 Civic fiestas emphasized the patriotic participation of Pueblans especially.

1856 Knickerbocker July 47 We had, however, seen the ladies to much greater advantage in Puebla... The ladies of a Pueblan cavalcade seem not to sit less firmly than do their companions of coarser mould.

1891 Catholic World Oct. 13 A more attractive Pueblan characteristic is the large number of ornaments exposed for sale in shops and street-corners.

1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay (1960) 248 The church looks like any other Mexican church—the usual dome, the usual pleasantly picturesque but ill-proportioned façade and, since it stands near Puebla, the usual Pueblan azulejos.

2000 B. Geddes World Food: Mexico 138 Talavera (the general name for Pueblan pottery) is a Spanish tradition that arrived in Puebla in the early days of the colony.

1875 Zion's Herald 18 Nov. 363/2 To honor Christ at home, or nearer home, which certainly must have been practicable to these Pueblans.

1888 Overland Monthly Dec. 571/2 A mass of broken walls, towers, and battlements, where the Pueblans fought their Navajo foes a century and more ago.

1983 C. Geertz Local Knowledge (2000) 88 Some Southwestern Indians—Pueblans—have names for every one of the types of coniferous tree in their region, most of which barely differ from one another.

1895 Cosmopolitan Mar. 594/2 The high cheek-bones scarcely mar the just balancing of the features of the face of this pueblan beauty. In tint, her skin is..much lighter than that of the Navajo women.

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. 1444/2 Pueblan architecture, the style of American aboriginal architecture exhibited in buildings and remains in Mexico, New Mexico and Arizona.

1923 H. Garland Bk. Amer. Indian 26 This restless, keeneyed, decisive americano..insisted all Pueblan ways were wrong.

2004 Time Internat. (Nexis) 25 Oct. 64 The Canyon's peaceful aspects: from big-horned sheep to ancient Pueblan red-clay homes.