sleeve-button

plural sleeve-buttons

1. datedA button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.

   […] I took my leave of Morgan with many tears, after we had exchanged our sleeve-buttons as remembrances of each other.

   1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter 35, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 314

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   “How those sleeve-buttons will suit me!” thought he, as he fixed a pair on the fat pudgy wrists of Mr. Sedley. “I long for sleeve-buttons; and the Captain’s boots with brass spurs, in the next room, corbleu! what an effect they will make in the Allee Verte!”

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

   He wore […] projecting cuffs, fastened with large oxidized silver sleeve-buttons, bearing the device of a dog’s face,—English pug.

   1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XXVII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 275

   The old man was fumbling with his sleeve button. Parker bared the arm, polished a little spot with a wisp of cotton saturated with alcohol, grasped the pathetically flabby skin with experienced fingers; and, tipping up the syringe, pushed the piston gently to expel the air.

   1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 8, in Green Light, London: Peter Davies, page 137

   Synonyms: cufflink, sleeve-link