cuff button
Americannoun
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the button for a shirt cuff.
Example Sentences
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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
After recounting his discovery of the cuff button, he added, "and that was one of the most damning pieces of evidence which I had against you, Marsh—the letter—"M" on that cuff button."
From The Sheridan Road Mystery by Thorne, Mabel
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
The cuff button, even, seemed to be growing doubtful in value.
From The Sheridan Road Mystery by Thorne, Mabel
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