bend sinister
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That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; Ð called also bastard bar.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
All these families bear the arms described by your correspondent, but without the bend sinister.
From Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various
By what legitimatizing process the bend sinister was erased, and the marquisate preserved, we have hitherto been unable to ascertain.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
That a market should be held upon the Sabbath in this city, is a "bend sinister" upon its escutcheon.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
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