cuff link

or cufflink


noun
  1. one of a pair of linked ornamental buttons or buttonlike devices for fastening a shirt cuff.

Origin of cuff link

1
First recorded in 1895–1900

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How to use cuff link in a sentence

  • Save the small pieces of silver clipped off, as they will be used to make the balls at the other end of the cuff link.

  • Somebody rushed out, I thought it was a nurse, and handed me one cuff link.

    Warren Commission (4 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • What Thea noticed, oddly enough, was the flash of the firelight on his cuff link.

    Song of the Lark | Willa Cather
  • His wristbands were grimy, and one cuff-link had been torn away.

    Satan Sanderson | Hallie Erminie Rives
  • "Beating," said she, and withdrew her hand, and in her cuff-link was entangled a thin string.

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British Dictionary definitions for cuff link

cuff link

noun
  1. one of a pair of linked buttons, used to join the buttonholes on the cuffs of a shirt

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