Usually means: Diagonal band on heraldic shields.
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  1. bend sinister: Merriam-Webster
  2. bend sinister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bend sinister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bend sinister: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bend sinister: Vocabulary.com
  6. bend sinister: Wordnik
  7. bend sinister: Wiktionary
  8. bend sinister: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. bend sinister: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Bend sinister, bend sinister: Dictionary.com
  11. Bend Sinister (album), Bend Sinister (band), Bend Sinister (novel), Bend Sinister, Bend sinister (heraldry), Bend sinister: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. bend sinister: Rhymezone
  13. Bend Sinister: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. bend sinister: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bend sinister: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. bend sinister: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bend Sinister: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bend sinister)

noun:  (heraldry) A diagonal band on a coat of arms going from the sinister chief (the viewer's top right) to the dexter base, sometimes erroneously held to indicate bastardy.
noun:  (figuratively, dated) Bastardy, (by extension) a defect or stigma.

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