bastardy

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But Bracton does have a lot to say about monsters, duels, bastardy, concubines, sturgeon “and other royal fish,” the “pillory and the ducking-stool," and "a judgment with infamy.”

From Washington Post • May 9, 2022

That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019

For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican,� is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the argument quickly picked up steam when the talk turned to bastardy among the bluebloods.

From Time Magazine Archive

I warrant you they will never be accused of bastardy; you were to blame to lay it to their charge, they will trace the steps that others have passed before.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy