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bend sinister

bend sinister

n. Heraldry

A band passing from the upper sinister corner of an escutcheon to the lower dexter corner.

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bend sinister

(Heraldry) heraldry a diagonal line bisecting a shield from the top right to the bottom left, typically indicating a bastard line

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bend′ sin′ister

a diagonal band extending from the sinister chief to the dexter base on a heraldic shield.

[1615–25]

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bend sinister - a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left

bar sinister

ordinary - (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields

stigma, stain, brand, mark - a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis

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bend sinister

n (Her) → Schräglinksbalken m

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They sound like they've been created by pulling disparate words out of a drunkard's hat - see Bend Sinister and Hex Enduction Hour for other such odd examples - but the dissonant noise groove on tracks like Transfusion display everything that made them faves of the late, great John Peel.

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In addition to Pale Fire, where the cyclical configuration of Joyce's text imposingly resonates, Bend Sinister, Nabokov's dystopian novel, also abounds in allusions to Finnegans Wake.

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THE INSIGNIA FOR New York-based design and publishing collective Dexter Sinister--David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey--is a plain shield, described in the very foreign but precise heraldic language as (party) per bend sinister: "a blank shield [(party)] with a single diagonal line [per bend] running from the bottom left edge to the top right hand corner [sinister]." Or, we could simply call this diagonal line a slash.