NOUN
- the status of being born to parents who were not married
- a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left
How To Use bar sinister In A Sentence
- This man Otis is the one blot on the banner of southern California; he is the bar sinister on your escutcheon.
- With his lineage blemished by the bar sinister, with no lands of his own, he was no great matrimonial prize. HERE BE DRAGONS
- bar sinister
- With his lineage blemished by the bar sinister, with no lands of his own, he was no great matrimonial prize. HERE BE DRAGONS
- The Victorian novelists’ use of ‘bar sinister’ instead of the correct term bendlet sinister or baton sinister may have derived from the French term for bend sinister which is une barre.
