Crossword clues for cufflink
Wiktionary
n. A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
WordNet
n. jewelry consisting of one of a pair of linked buttons used to fasten the cuffs of a shirt
Wikipedia
Cufflinks are used to secure button shirt cuffs and may also be an item of jewellery for boys and men. Cufflinks can be manufactured from a variety of different materials, such as glass, stone, leather, metal, precious metal or combinations of these. Securing of the cufflinks is usually achieved via toggles or reverses based on the design of the front section, which can be folded into position. In addition, there are also variants with chains or a rigid, bent rear section. The front sections of the cufflinks can be decorated with gemstones, inlays, inset material or enamel and designed in two or three-dimensional form.
Cufflinks are designed only for use with shirts which have buttonholes on both sides but no buttons. These may be either single or double-length ("French") cuffs, and may be worn either "kissing," with the ends pinched together, or "barrel-style," with one end overlapping the other. The "barrel-style" was popularized by a famous 19th century entertainer and clown, Dan Rice; however, "kissing" cuffs are usually preferred.
Usage examples of "cufflink".
He stopped in mid-sentence as Nick casually laid the cufflink on the small wooden table between the chairs and loveseat.
Nick picked up the cufflink with one hand and the receipt with the other.
Nick put the receipt away, but kept the gold cufflink under the nose of the frightened congressman.
Cormack reached out and deftly threaded the cufflink, like a father teaching a twelve-year-old boy how to wear his first grown-up clothes.
The last articles he took were from the dressing-table drawer: gold cufflinks, three watches and two signet rings.
It contained an elegant set of cufflinks with matching tie clip, wrought from discarded beer bottle tops.
Loosening the onyx cufflinks from his shirt sleeves, he doubled back the French cuffs and rubbed his palms together.
He was just fiddling hopelessly with the cufflinks on his third shirt when the rat-tat-tat came at the door.
He was a congeries of Eastern affectations: hair pomaded straight back, suspenders, lizardskin briefcase, bow tie, Porcellian Club cufflinks, clear-rimmed glasses, and a show-offy knowledge of French menus.
The shirt was French-cuffed, of course, and now with the cuffs pulled back for the manicure, the ruby cufflinks sat a couple of inches apart on the desk, staring at Treadwell like the eyes of a drunk bulldog.
The students now were pelting their former spokesman with the gold cufflinks, desk-calendars, and ball-point pens distributed among them by the aides, and Reginald Hector went to issue fresh directives for this contingency.
Then, as he finished dressing, he opened the little drawer beneath his cufflink box--the drawer you might not realize was there unless you were specifically looking for a little drawer right there in that particular cufflink box--and in anticipation of the coming evening, removed one of the three remaining old pennies (the last of fourteen he had bought in the batch) and carried it into the living room.
The partial denture he had found inside his little impresario's coat, incidentally, was in his cufflinks box in his dresser drawer.
All his essentials: alarm clock, personal organiser, grandfather's cufflinks, charger for his mobile phone.
I had dressed that morning in my second-best town clothes: a navy chalk-stripe single-breasted suit made by my tailors in Savile Row, club tie, cream Gieves and Hawkes shirt, silver cufflinks from Aspreys, Church's black Oxford lace ups, silk socks, cashmere navy-blue overcoat, on my wrist my father's old Smiths watch.