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."
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
There were several generations of them, and used for their arms those of Bonville with the addition of a bend sinister; they also became extinct.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
