Cuff-link

Quick meaning: Cuff-link is a noun meaning Alternative form of cufflink.

Meaning

Alternative form of cufflink.

Example Sentences

So, what was in the green jewellery box I found last week? Not an engagement ring; merely a pair of old cuff-links the boyfriend had brought from his mum's, "in case I ever wear a shirt".

Astaire’s widow [Robyn Smith] says she wants to honor his wishes and prevent the trivialization and commercialization of his name and his life’s work. “Can you believe it?” she asks. “Someone sent me a life-sized cut-out of Fred in tails, with holes where the studs and the cuff-links would go. It was going to be a display to sell jewelry.”

It's an extremely complex role that Bergman has written for [Elliott] Gould, that of a man who is haunted by the fact that he is his family's only male survivor (his father died in a concentration camp), and who is apparently his sister's protector and lover. But little of this complexity comes through and I, for one, never believed that his archeologist could find a cuff‐link in a messy bureau drawer, much less an ancient shard on a hillside.

Word Forms

• cuff-links

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