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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Two buttons, plates, or bars united by a link or short chain, and serving to hold together the two edges of the cuff or wristband: a common adjunct of men's dress in the nineteenth century. Compare sleeve-button.
Wiktionary
- n. cufflink
Examples
“I looked for a time steadfastly at a beautiful pearl sleeve-link.”
“With pencil and pen I was handy enough, and I can still tie as good a bow as ever lay on a man's collar, but with a tool or a bat or a gun, a sleeve-link or a corkscrew, I have always been unreachable.”
“The oval seal is undoubtedly a plain sleeve-link -- what else is of such a shape?”
“Lopez addressed the note which I had written, sealed it with his sleeve-link, and sent it by the hand of the servant, Jose.”
“Not a stiver in his pockets, nor as much as a sleeve-link to help pay for the burial. ”
“Yesterday, while moving the bureau in my room, Mrs. Cleary found a sleeve-link on the carpet; she thought it was one I had dropped.”
“It must have been she, who else could have dropped the sleeve-link?”
“Father Cruse had never believed it, and he had only argued himself into thinking that the woman who had dropped the sleeve-link must be his wife.”
“The Shadow turned most respectfully to his master, and, touching his sleeve-link, which was of bright gold, said, in”
“That sleeve-link belongs to a poor creature who slept in that room three or four days before ye come and skipped the next morning. ”
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