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  • Otherwise, try Louis Vuitton check out the hats and cuff-link bracelets, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Antonio Berardi or modern-day McQueen.

    Top of the Shops: What to Buy Now Tina Gaudoin 2011

  • "Miss Dixie," as she was universally known, was the soul of discretion and referred to her gay customers as the "cuff-link set."

    New Orleans's 'Miss Dixie' Fasnacht Dies at 101 Stephen Miller 2011

  • ‘Do forgive the intrusion,’ I said, twiddling with my cuff-link.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • ‘Do forgive the intrusion,’ I said, twiddling with my cuff-link.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • The rubber disk takes its place in Bobby's top dresser drawer, resting between the blue half-shoe and a melted glob of metal that may have done duty as a cuff-link, joining a larger company of remnants -- scraps of silk and worsted and striped cotton; a flattened fountain pen; a few inches of brown leather hanging from a misshapen buckle; a hinged pin once attached to a brooch.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • He glanced about the street, then feigned refastening a cuff-link.

    Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

  • "No, I haven't found it, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was lookin 'for that same cuff-link."

    32 Caliber Donald McGibeny

  • "Sounded as though that precious cuff-link of yours had dropped into the water."

    32 Caliber Donald McGibeny

  • A man can't date his girl for weeks without dropping a few things like a cigarette lighter, a tie clip, one odd cuff-link, some papers, a few letters, some books, and stuff both valuable and worthless that had turned up as gifts for one reason or another.

    Highways in Hiding George Oliver Smith 1946

  • His hand, in his pocket, felt the Y.C.F. badge and the cuff-link.

    Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931

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