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bar sinister

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Definition:
1. A bend sinister or baton sinister in a coat of arms.
2. The state or characteristic of having been born out of wedlock; illegitimacy;
3. A state or characteristic which is dishonorable or shameful; a stigma.

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it cannot be that free, enlightened America will not then desire to wipe from her escutcheon that bar sinister which disgraces her among nations, and is as truly a curse to her as to the enslaved.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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On the scutcheon we'll have a bend or in the dexter base, a saltire murrey in the fess, with a dog, couchant, for common charge, and under his foot a chain embattled, for slavery, with a chevron vert in a chief engrailed, and three invected lines on a field azure, with the nombril points rampant on a dancette indented; crest, a runaway nigger, sable, with his bundle over his shoulder on a bar sinister*; and a couple of gules for supporters, which is you and me; motto, Maggiore Fretta, Minore Otto. Got it out of a book—means the more haste the less speed."

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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