Usage examples (13)

• In the medical world, "une agrafe" is 'a skin clip '... but let's forget about them for the time being.
• In clothes, "une agrafe" is a hook used for fastening 2 edges of material together - usually more reliable than "un bouton-pression" (= a press button)
• Toubon has issued a dictionary of approved French equivalents, some of them ludicrously unwieldy, such as the word agrafe (staple), mandated to replace video "clip."
• Hint: the next word of the day will be agrafe ....