cuff link

American  

Or cufflink

noun

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

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cuff link British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of cuff link

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

The group formed during FDR's unsuccessful campaign as Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate in 1920, and FDR gave each member one cuff link with his initials and the other with his own, according to the FDR library.

From Time • Jun. 14, 2017

John’s middle daughter, Tracy, who lives in California and couldn’t make it to Monday’s game, attached the same cuff link to the bouquet at her wedding last month.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2017

Like a reluctant and glamorous spy, Bruno flirts with a woman on the ferry there, even asking her for a kiss for luck after he loses a cuff link.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2016

Mr. Porter has spent up to a few thousand dollars apiece for cuff link pairs; his priciest acquisitions, made of gold and amethyst, were designed by Art Smith, a Greenwich Village artisan.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2016

Their hearts were wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings, in a cuff link set all its own .

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides