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.
METALEPSIS
metalepsis
(noun) substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
metalepsis (countable and uncountable, plural metalepses)
(rhetoric) A rhetorical device whereby one word is metonymically substituted for another word which is itself a metonym; more broadly, a metaphor consisting of a series of embedded metonyms or rhetorical substitutions.
Synonyms
• transumption
Anagrams
• timelapses
Source: Wiktionary
Met`a*lep"sis, n.; pl. Metalepses. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Definition: The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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