pauliste

Paulist (specifically a member of a missionary society founded in New York in 1885)

Borrowed from English Paulist.

of São Paulo, Brazil

“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.

Borrowed from Portuguese paulista.