bend sinister
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That in heraldry, a bend sinister indicates bastardy.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019
They are the chief, pale, bend, bend sinister, fess, bar, chevron, cross, and cross saltier.
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
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
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
To which I could only reply, "Madam, I have never yet discovered the bend sinister on our escutcheon."
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
