the meaning of 'pueblo' with Fitzgerald
Athough I am aware of three different meanings of the word 'pueblo' (depending on capitalization), I fail to understand the way it is used by Scott Fitzgerald in his story Three Hours between Planes.
The immediate context (it's at the beginning) is this:
"It was a wild chance but Donald was in the mood, healthy and bored, with a sense of tiresome duty done. He was now rewarding himself. Maybe.
When the plane landed he stepped out into a mid-western summer night and headed for the isolated pueblo airport, conventionalized as an old red 'railway depot'. He did not know whether she was alive, or living in this town, or what was her present name. With mounting excitement he looked through the phone book for her father who might be dead too, somewhere in these twenty years." (retrieved from http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/THREE%20HOURS%20BETWEEN%20PLANES.html )
Does anybody have an idea what is meant by 'pueblo' here? Does it refer to the fact that the airport is Indian, or is it a village airport (i.e. a local airport), is it made of clay?
Any help is much appreciated. Regards, Jan.
Top answer
Difficult to say, you can take any of the: ---------------- pueblo Function: adjective Usage: usually capitalized 1 : of or relating to a culture of the plateau area of the southwestern United States following and forming one cultural development with the Basket Maker, developing in five stages, and characterized in its earliest stage by true masonry buildings and loom weaving and at its zenith by fine masonry, large communal towns, and buildings set under overhanging cliffs or in the open -- see ANASAZI , DEVELOPMENTAL PUEBLO , GREAT PUEBLO 2 : of, relating to, or imitating the decorative and architectural style of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico -----------
- Difficult to say, you can take any of the: ---------------- pueblo Function: adjective Usage: usually capitalized 1 : of or relating to a culture of the plateau area of the southwestern United States following and forming one cultural development with the Basket Maker, developing in five stages, and characterized in its earliest stage by true masonry buildings and loom weaving and at its zenith by fine masonry, large communal towns, and buildings set under overhanging cliffs or in the open -- see ANASAZI , DEVELOPMENTAL PUEBLO , GREAT PUEBLO 2 : of, relating to, or imitating the decorative and architectural style of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico -----------
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pueblo
Function: adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
1 : of or relating to a culture of the plateau area of the southwestern United States following and forming one cultural development with the Basket Maker, developing in five stages, and characteriz
0There is a city called Pueblo in southern Colorado, but since the name is not capitalized in the text I think that the definition of "town or village" is probably the most likely.
0That is almost, but not entirely the case: these definitions are slightly different from the ones I had seen. Esp. the bit about 'architecture' is interesting. Still, considering the context which states that the building was 'convcentionalized as a red railway depot' it does not seem to refer
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