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bastardy

[bas-ter-dee] / ˈbæs tər di /


NOUN
illegitimacy
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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

In condoning bastardy, North Dakota and Arizona are the most liberal States in the Union.

From Time Magazine Archive

The arms borne in the usual manner were often surrounded with a bordure to indicate bastardy; of this mode of differencing several examples are furnished in the arms of existing peers descended from royalty.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony




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