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Meanings of cufflink in English

A fastening for a shirt cuff, usually consisting of two buttons or buttonlike parts connected with a chain or shank that passes through two slits in the cuff.

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        Usage of cufflink in English
        1
        He toyed with his cufflink and stared at the wall.
        Private Sector
        2
        He saw the mellow gleam of one cufflink.
        Pet Sematary
        3
        He wound it through his fingers until the clasp at the end tapped against his cufflink.
        The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
        4
        Gwen reached for it and saw that it was a cufflink bearing the picture of a clown.
        Skypoint
        5
        Maybe a cufflink under the bed?
        End of Watch
        6
        The gentleman, a lawyer by profession, had taken off his jacket when he suddenly felt a cufflink leave his shirt.
        Ghosts
        7
        RW: Some designs, especially staple accessories like simple watch movements mounted to cufflink bases or ring forms can be created fairly quickly.
        Wired
        8
        I am bringing out a "one man one vote" cufflink as well as drop earrings with XX and charm bracelets and many more.
        The South African
        9
        Sleeves come with double cuffs and novelty cufflinks for a polished finish.
        The Irish Times
        10
        Simon, who was having difficulty with his cufflinks, stopped wrestling with them.
        Aimez-vous Brahms
        11
        He was still watching the crowd, twisting one of his swallow-shaped cufflinks.
        The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
        12
        This man with the cufflinks was a certified Master of Library Science.
        Running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librar...
        13
        Non-human matter, like the estate agent's clown cufflinks got left as waste.
        Skypoint
        14
        He's wearing a lovely dark suit and a shirt with proper cufflinks.
        The Irish Times
        15
        Hackett hunts out cufflinks from local antique markets or second-hand shops.
        The Irish Times
        16
        In the 1950s, the soldiers of Christ didn't wear armor; they wore cufflinks.
        The family: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of american p...
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