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

To which I could only reply, "Madam, I have never yet discovered the bend sinister on our escutcheon."

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 113, December 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 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

Thus a bend proceeding from the top of the left side of the shield is called a bend sinister.

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