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Example sentences for: metonymy

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Privy and closet are examples of euphemism by metonymy, which is the substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the thing itself: a toilet is a private place, therefore a privy.
“Address your remarks to the chair” illustrates metonymy, a figure of speech in which something is called by the name of something else associated with it.
All these are feasible surmises by the process of metonymy.
As the main purpose of this collection is to trace the origins of folk metaphor in English, nearly all examples of metonymy, synecdoche and swearing have been omitted as being too marginal or personal...
Women's language is often metonymy for women's literary style.