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Bar sinister   /bɑr sˈɪnɪstər/   Listen
Bar sinister

noun
1.
The status of being born to parents who were not married.  Synonyms: bastardy, illegitimacy.
2.
A mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left.  Synonym: bend sinister.





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"Bar sinister" Quotes from Famous Books



... we could keep them out as we have kept out sparsely settled New Mexico? How long do you expect to keep New Mexico out, or Oklahoma, or Arizona? What luck did you have in keeping out others—even Utah, with its bar sinister of the twin relic of barbarism? How long would it take your politicians of the baser sort to combine for the admission of the islands whose electoral votes they had reason to ...
— Problems of Expansion - As Considered In Papers and Addresses • Whitelaw Reid


Words linked to "Bar sinister" :   stain, brand, ordinary, stigma, status, mark, bend sinister, position


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