bar sinister

1. A heraldic bend or baton sinister, held to signify bastardy. Not in technical use.

2. A hint or proof of illegitimate birth.

bar sinister

1. (History / Heraldry) (not in heraldic usage) another name for bend sinister

2. the condition, implication, or stigma of being of illegitimate birth

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Noun	1.	bar sinister - the status of being born to parents who were not married bastardy, illegitimacy status, position - the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"
	2.	bar sinister - a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left bend sinister ordinary - (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields stigma, stain, brand, mark - a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis

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bar sinister

n (Her) → Bastardfaden m

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bastardy bend sinister brand illegitimacy Mark ordinary position sinister stain status stigma	I couldn't have enjoyed such a thing with my notions; and it wouldn't have been fair, anyway, because as far back as I could go, our tribe had always been short of the bar sinister. A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context I bedewed his grave with my tears, worked a bar sinister on his family escutcheon, and, for the general expenses of his funeral, sent in my very moderate bill to the transcendentalists. Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context	bar absolute bar billiards bar bit bar chart bar chord bar code bar diagram bar exam bar examination bar fly bar girl bar graph Bar Harbor bar hop bar hopping Bar iron Bar Kochba bar line bar magnet bar mask bar mitzvah bar printer bar scale Bar shoe Bar shot bar sinister bar soap bar stool bar tin Bar tracery bar- bar-hopping bar-le-duc bar-room bar-room plant bar-shaped Bar. Bara Barabbas Baraca Baracaldo barachois Baracoa Barad baraesthesia Baraesthesiometer baragnosis Barak Baraka Baranavichy baranduki	bar pattern Bar Pin Eliminator bar plain Bar Plan Title Insurance Company bar post Bar Primary Current Transformer bar printer bar printer Bar Pro Bono Unit Bar Professional Training Course bar reader bar responsibility for serving Bar Restaurant Du Havre Bar Risa Bar Room Bar Bar rot Bar rot Bar rot bar sash lift bar scale bar scale bar schedule bar screen bar shoe bar shoe bar shoe bar shoe bar shoe Bar shot bar sight bar sinister bar sinisters bar sinisters bar size section bar soap bar someone’s way bar spacing bar splint cast bar splint cast bar splint cast bar splint cast bar steel Bar stool Bar Stool Side Table Bar stools bar strainer bar support Bar Sysytem Bar test Bar test bar test survey bar theory bar tin bar to an allegation Bar tour Bar tracery Bar tracery bar turret lathe BAR UK Bar Underground Music Bunker Bar vocational course

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bastardy
bend sinister
brand
illegitimacy
Mark
ordinary
position
sinister
stain
status
stigma

I couldn't have enjoyed such a thing with my notions; and it wouldn't have been fair, anyway, because as far back as I could go, our tribe had always been short of the bar sinister.

A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context

I bedewed his grave with my tears, worked a bar sinister on his family escutcheon, and, for the general expenses of his funeral, sent in my very moderate bill to the transcendentalists.

Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context