Date: 2006-10-06 07:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brooksmoses
Synecdoche. I find it a very pleasant concept to have a word for.

See also metonymy -- substitution of an attribute for the thing it's an attribute of (e.g., "crown" for "king"), which figures prominently in this John M. Ford anecdote.
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