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cuff button

American  

noun

  1. the button for a shirt cuff.


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Here was something worth investigating, he thought, for he remembered the cuff button with the initial "M," which Morgan had discovered.

From The Sheridan Road Mystery by Thorne, Mabel

That would not have gone very far," laughed Marsh, "because I've never worn an initialed cuff button in my life.

From The Sheridan Road Mystery by Thorne, Mabel

The cuff button, however, with its initial "M" was more direct in its accusation.

From The Sheridan Road Mystery by Thorne, Mabel

The flattened bullet and the cuff button, revealed by friendly rays of sunlight, seemed to be all that he could find.

From The Sheridan Road Mystery by Thorne, Mabel

Yet the coincidences of this disappearance, the evidences of a crime, and the cuff button initialed "M," possessed too strong a significance to be entirely disregarded.

From The Sheridan Road Mystery by Thorne, Mabel

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