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Significats de bar sinister en anglès

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bastardia
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il·legitimitat

The status of being born to parents who were not married.

il·legitimitat

A mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left.

Sinònims
Examples for "bend sinister"
Examples for "bend sinister"
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The bend sinister of ostracism was the source of his hunger.
The Demolished Man
2
One with a bend sinister, we presume.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920
3
Remember that most all slang is of vulgar origin and bears upon its face the bend sinister of vulgarity.
How to Speak and Write Correctly
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For all of the bend sinister upon his escutcheon, Reginald Maltravers was as fanatical concerning the family as his father.
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
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By what legitimatizing process the bend sinister was erased, and the marquisate preserved, we have hitherto been unable to ascertain.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
Ús de bar sinister en anglès
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Not a man of them left a bar sinister on th' scutcheon!
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
2
At the same moment, verbally, he cast the bar sinister on my genealogy.
The Road
3
Also, she thought she was all-white, and never dreamed of a bar sinister.
A Son of the Sun
4
The history of France swarms with princes bearing the bar sinister on their shields.
The Ball at Sceaux
5
Had she been merely of illegitimate birth, he would have overlooked the bar sinister.
The House Behind the Cedars
6
It is the bar sinister, the badge of dishonor.
The Black Wolf's Breed / A Story of France in the Old World and ...
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If they choose to consider that Boston bringing-up a social bar sinister, so be it.
The Californiacs
8
He is a Delmar, although with the bar sinister.
Percival Keene
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That there was a bar sinister did not matter.
A Splendid Hazard
10
Some secret, perhaps, of shame and disgrace-somebar sinister in their shield; and, good heavens!
The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance
11
The law of man disavows me-thebar sinister.
Arms and the Woman
12
No bar sinister could tell a stronger tale.
Dark Hollow
13
Even this does not exhaust her family history; there is something like a bar sinister in her escutcheon.
A Second Book of Operas
14
The forgotten deeds of desperate valor-alluseless now, and stained forever with the bar sinister of his treason.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
15
He himself was in the habit of jocularly alluding to this disfigurement as his " bar sinister."
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
16
The Bastard of Burgundy, wearing the Burgundian coat-of-arms with a bar sinister, made a fine record for himself.
Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
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