Category:French metonyms

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Newest and oldest pages 
Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. solfège
  2. Brazzaville
  3. donne
  4. béret vert
  5. bistro
  6. friperie
  7. culot
  8. marmite
  9. dans
  10. Ottawa
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. Covid-19
  2. béret vert
  3. Bercy
  4. C3
  5. gilet jaune
  6. fleur
  7. esprit
  8. donne
  9. Brazzaville
  10. Matignon

French terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.