Crossword-Solution: PULIDO 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Rojas killed between decks on a steamer of this same line; of Bonilla taken from the Ariadne and murdered on this very wharf at this very port of Amapala; of General Pulido strangled in the launch of the Commandante of Corinto and thrown overboard, while still in the sight of his fellow-passengers on the Southern Cross.

Por un lado era blanco como plata mate, con adornos en realce de pájaros y flores, y por el otro, brillante y pulido como cristal.

You never see a splodge of light that entertains you for a moment and relapses into _chic_ as you analyse it; even the most elusive bits of painting like the sword-hilt in the "Admiral Pulido" are utterly just, and observed as the light flickers and is lost over the steel shapes.

During the twenty years that he held this post he was responsible for many important purchases, among them Leonardo da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks," Raphael's "Ansidei Madonna," Holbein's "Ambassadors," Van Dyck's equestrian portrait of Charles I., and the "Admiral Pulido Pareja," by Velasquez; and he added largely to the noted series of Early Italian pictures in the gallery.

The _Diccionario de Motul, MS._ gives the meaning of _ahoni_ as "pulido, galan, muy bien vestido," _ahoni a talel ex_, "you come very well dressed." I suppose, therefore, that it was a term applied to some early tribe who distinguished themselves in comparison with their ruder neighbors by elegance of costume.