'Bend sinister' definitions:
Definition of 'bend sinister'
From: WordNet
noun
A mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left [syn: bar sinister, bend sinister]
Definition of 'Bend sinister'
From: GCIDE
- Bend \Bend\, n. [AS. bend. See Band, and cf. the preceding noun.]
- 1. A band. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [OF. bende, bande, F. bande. See Band.] (Her.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base. [1913 Webster]
- Bend sinister (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base. [1913 Webster]