cuff link

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

Origin of cuff link

First recorded in 1895–1900

cuernavaca, cuesta, cuevas, cuff, cuff button, cuff link, cuffe, cuffee, cuffing season, cuffs, cufic

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

Little Aliens |Myra Kelly
His wristbands were grimy, and one cuff-link had been torn away.

Satan Sanderson |Hallie Erminie Rives
"Because you're a woman and sentimental," said her spouse, wrestling with a cuff-link.

The Dop Doctor |Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
I stooped to help him and as we lifted the divan to its place the fringe of the cover caught in my cuff-link.

The Mystery of the Hidden Room |Marion Harvey

A lawyer having offices in a large office building recently lost a cuff-link, one of a pair that he greatly prized.

Toaster's Handbook |Peggy Edmund and Harold W. Williams, compilers

cuff link

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