pauliste

• IPA^(key): /po.list/

Borrowed from English Paulist.^[1]

pauliste (plural paulistes)

1. (religion) Paulist (specifically a member of a missionary society founded in New York in 1885)^[1]

• paulinien

• paulin, paulinisme

Borrowed from Portuguese paulista.

pauliste (plural paulistes)

1. (relational) of São Paulo, Brazil
   • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter XI, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 111; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:

     A l'abri de cette faune pierreuse, l'élite pauliste, pareille à ses orchidées favorites, formait une flore nonchalante et plus exotique qu'elle ne croyait.

     Sheltering in this stony fauna, the elite of São Paulo, like its favourite orchids, constituted a more languid and exotic flora than it was aware of itself.

• Pauliste

• “pauliste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /pawˈlis.te/
• Rhymes: -iste
• Hyphenation: pau‧lì‧ste

pauliste

1. feminine plural of paulista

• pulsiate, spuliate