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French
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Etymology 1
Borrowed from English Paulist.[1]
Adjective
pauliste (plural paulistes)
- (religion) Paulist (specifically a member of a missionary society founded in New York in 1885)[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dictionnaire Hachette de la langue française, 1980
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Portuguese paulista.
Adjective
pauliste (plural paulistes)
- (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.
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pawˈli.ste/
- Rhymes: -iste
- Hyphenation: pau‧lì‧ste
Adjective
pauliste
- feminine plural of paulista
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