cuff link
or cufflink
one of a pair of linked ornamental buttons or buttonlike devices for fastening a shirt cuff.
Origin of cuff link
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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.
The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals | Charles Conrad SleffelSomebody 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 KennedyWhat Thea noticed, oddly enough, was the flash of the firelight on his cuff link.
Song of the Lark | Willa CatherHis 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.
Little Aliens | Myra Kelly
British Dictionary definitions for cuff link
one of a pair of linked buttons, used to join the buttonholes on the cuffs of a shirt
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