pauliste
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See also: Pauliste
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English Paulist.[1]
Adjective
pauliste (plural paulistes)
Hypernyms
See also
References
- 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.
See also
Further reading
- “pauliste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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