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View synonyms for bar sinister
bar sinister
noun
- Heraldry. (not in technical use) a bend sinister or a baton.
- the proof, condition, or stigma of illegitimate birth.
bar sinister
noun
- (not in heraldic usage) another name for bend sinister
- the condition, implication, or stigma of being of illegitimate birth
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bar sinister1
First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences
The bar sinister was on his shield; his credentials were the advice of an unreal person to fight in common with the whites.
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Brindle is so pedigreed I don't believe he would thank you for the bar sinister you put on him.
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The bar sinister stayed him from Broadweald, so the judges had said, and haughty Fitzooth had perforce to bear with their finding.
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The forgotten deeds of desperate valor—all useless now, and stained forever with the bar sinister of his treason.
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It is utterly impossible to draw a bar sinister—such a thing does not exist.
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