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cufflink

cuff·link

or cuff link (kŭf′lĭngk′)

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.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

cuff link

1. (Clothing & Fashion) one of a pair of linked buttons, used to join the buttonholes on the cuffs of a shirt

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cuff′ link`

or cuff′link`,

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

[1895–1900]

cuff link

- Links the split cuff of a shirt.

cuff link

n → Manschettenknopf m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cuff link

n → gemello

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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