cufflink
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈkʌfˌlɪŋk/
:
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- He fastened his shirt cuffs with a pair of elegant cufflinks before the formal dinner.
- shirt with cufflinks
- pair of cufflinks
- put on cufflinks
And he pulls off his cufflinks and he gives them to me.
- And he pulls off his cufflinks and he gives them to me.
- If you look at my my cufflinks, they say wisdom and love, love it.
- So every Tuesday I'm bringing him some sort of like tie clip or cufflinks or sunglasses or a gift card to Best Buy, whatever it is.
- But whenever I have to wear a suit, I have these cufflinks that combine the British flag and the American flag in half and half.
- He's like, find as many little things as you can that are special to that day so that later you put them on and you go, Oh, those are my wedding cufflinks.
- But because I'm wearing gold on this side, it's the same cufflink in gold.
Examples
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His cufflinks were gold with a discreet sapphire, probably worth more than Sam had made in the last six months.
Fiction book (2002) -
Because your cufflinks were such a bargain.
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Well, I... I think I lost a cufflink the other day.
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But because I'm wearing gold on this side, it's the same cufflink in gold.
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And he pulls off his cufflinks and he gives them to me.
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Instead of your father's ring, how about you wear the cufflinks we got you last Christmas?
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He took off his cufflinks and laid them on the night table.
Fiction book (2001) -
On one shirt cuff, we see a cufflink that is turquoise, orange, and silver.
Fiction book (1990) -
Pick up a pair of novelty iPhone-styled cufflinks for about $7 on eBay.
Blog text (32) -
Al Stump, 40, is sharply dressed—tie, dress shirt, cufflinks.
Fiction book (1994)
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cufflink comes from cuff, meaning the 'end of a shirt sleeve', and link, meaning a 'small connection' like a piece of a chain. So a cufflink is a little 'link' that joins the two sides of a cuff and keeps it closed.