metonym
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It’s more metonym for the glamorous arrivals than a literal description of what everyone is walking on.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023
Belle and Sebastian’s first two albums, “Tigermilk” and “If You’re Feeling Sinister,” both released in 1996, congealed a certain starry-eyed preciousness with unrepentantly adorable shambolics, near-instantly making the band a metonym for tweedom writ large.
From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023
There is even a popular colloquial term for those hierarchies: A pecking order, which is used as a metonym for any social hierarchy, particularly workplace ones.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2022
In “Botox,” a bleak Iranian-Canadian film that’s been circulating at festivals this year, it becomes a profound metonym for self-delusion.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2021
"Bartús" is evidently formed "on the weight" of "Bartút;" and his metonym is a caricature, a chaff fit for Fellahe.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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