http://www.bartleby.com/61/32/A0353200.html

By def 2, it doesn't seem to quite fit the bill. Calling any actress (or any huskily sexy actress) a Mae West would fit, but I don't see it for a life jacket or a small circular white cake.


I don't find eponomasia in the discredited AHD. Perhaps it's in the discredited OED. tsuwm?