cuff link

or cufflink

noun

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

cuff link

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cuff link¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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.

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

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What Thea noticed, oddly enough, was the flash of the firelight on his cuff link.

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His wristbands were grimy, and one cuff-link had been torn away.

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"Beating," said she, and withdrew her hand, and in her cuff-link was entangled a thin string.

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