bar sinister
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One result: a son, James Smithson, who became a leading chemist, but because of the bar sinister never a duke.
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Entitled A Family Album, it opens with an ancestral chart that looks at first glance like the Stuart family tree, minus the bar sinister.
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Despite so much blue blood, the bar sinister seared James Smithson all his life.
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Yet Christian was branded with the bar sinister; the only title he could really claim was, affectionate or derisive, "General Crack."
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But the Duke was still a child, and might die as Henry’s other sons had died; and other claims there were which, in the face of the bar sinister, could not fail to be asserted.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.