bend sinister in English

noun
1
a broad diagonal stripe from top right to bottom left of a shield (a supposed sign of bastardy).
Having the shield set per bend sinister means there's a bastard somewhere back up the line.
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1. Blazon: Per bend sinister argent and vert, two owls Affronty within a laurel wreath all counterchanged.

2. Two of this month's submissions featured Per bend sinister Bevilled, and there was considerable discussion over whether the Bevilled treatment was used in period

3. Parted per pale; I Bleu Celeste, a celtic cross argent [throughout]; II Argent, a bend sinister gules; [the shield] Bordured or and crowned with chapeau purpure banded or

4. Sable a death’s-head Argent Affronty with cracked crown its sinister socket absconded by a patch Sable, above a cutlass in bend dexter surmounted of a blunderbuss in bend sinister, in fess, all between a tankard its handle dexter and a ferret rampant, all Argent.

5. One of these intellectual tyrants, a man of great ability, when he quarrelled with any one, used to threaten to "Bastardise" him, or to find the bend-sinister somewhere in his ancestry; and his experience in long genealogies made him feel assured, in the general case