Category:French metonyms

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Newest and oldest pages 
Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. cloporte
  2. tréteau
  3. solfège
  4. Brazzaville
  5. donne
  6. béret vert
  7. bistro
  8. friperie
  9. culot
  10. marmite
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. fleur
  2. dans
  3. cocktail
  4. Bercy
  5. transistor
  6. marmite
  7. esprit
  8. donne
  9. Matignon
  10. Amérique

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.