According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
CATACHRESIS
catachresis
(noun) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as ‘blatant’ to mean ‘flagrant’) or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: ‘blind mouths’)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
catachresis (plural catachreses)
A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
(often, especially) Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
(rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly-applied metaphor or trope.
Synonyms
• (misuse of a word, regardless of similar sounds): misnomer
• (misuse of a word, with similar sounds): malapropism
• ((rhetoric) bad metaphor or trope): abusio
Source: Wiktionary
Cat`a*chre"sis, n. Etym: [L. fr. Gr. (Rhel.)
Definition: A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles. " Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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