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Meanings of bar sinister in English

Portuguese
bastardia
Catalan
il·legitimitat

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

        bastardia

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

              Usage of bar sinister in English
              1
              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 ...
              7
              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
              9
              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
              Translations for bar sinister
              Portuguese
              bastardia