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Paulista|paʊˈliːstə|
Also with lower-case initial.
[Pg., f. São Paulo (see below) + -ista -ist.]
a. A person of mixed Portuguese and Brazilian Indian descent; spec. one of the explorers and settlers of the hinterlands of southern Brazil. (Obs. exc. hist.).
b. A native or inhabitant of the city of São Paulo in southern Brazil.
1817Southey Hist. Brazil II. xxiii. 300 The Paulistas have acted so memorable a part in Brazil and Paraguay that it becomes of importance to trace their history distinctly, and clear it from fables and misrepresentations. 1884R. G. Watson Span. & Portug. S. Amer. II. xi. 169 The search for the precious metals had long shared with slave-hunting the efforts of the Paulistas and others. Ibid. 174 Minas Geraes soon acquired the unenviable notoriety..of being the most turbulent settlement in Brazil. Its people were divided into two classes, called..Paulistas and Florasteiros or strangers. 1896A. H. Keane Ethnol. vii. 152 In Brazil the famous ‘Paulistas’ (so called from the province of São Paulo), a cross between the first Portuguese immigrants and the aborigines, have always been the most vigorous and enterprising section of the community. 1910Encycl. Brit. VII. 677/2 Cuyabá was founded in 1719 by Paulista gold hunters. 1932W. S. Robertson Hist. Lat.-Amer. Nations (ed. 2) vi. 123 ‘Paulistas’, as the half-breed adventurers from São Paulo were called, gradually penetrated farther and farther into the interior. 1942A. St. James tr. Zweig's Brazil 211 During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on the banks of the little river Ticté there lies a small unimportant town, more headquarters and camp than a permanent settlement of those roaming gangs, the Paulistas, who roved through the whole country..in search of loot. Ibid. 218 The Paulistas have a most competitive attitude toward Rio de Janeiro, and the desire not to appear inferior or less artistic. 1944S. Putnam tr. E. de Cunha's Rebellion in Backlands ii. 63 The Paulista—and this name, in its historic signification, takes in the sons of Rio de Janeiro, Minas, São Paulo, and regions south—now arose as an autonomous type, adventurous, rebellious, freedom-loving. 1966Economist 3 Sept. 902 Pleasure-loving cariocas (those who live in Rio), economically eager paulistas (those who live in São Paulo). 1976R. Perry One Good Death v. 75 The daily nightmare that many Paulistas called travelling home from work. |