bend sinister
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That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019
The scarpe is the diminutive of the bend sinister, and is half its size.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
There were several generations of them, and used for their arms those of Bonville with the addition of a bend sinister; they also became extinct.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
To which I could only reply, "Madam, I have never yet discovered the bend sinister on our escutcheon."
His descent was noble on one side, with or without the bend sinister, which he said he would never have disclaimed, had it been his, but which he did not happen to inherit.
From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew
