The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bend \Bend\, n. [AS. bend. See Band, and cf. the preceding noun.]
A band. [Obs.]
--Spenser.-
[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.
Bend sinister (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base.
Wiktionary
n. (context heraldiccharge English) A diagonal band on a coat of arms going from top right to bottom left (as you look at it), held to indicate bastardy.
WordNet
n. a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left [syn: bar sinister]
Wikipedia
Bend Sinister is a dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during the years 1945 and 1946, and published by Henry Holt and Company in 1947. It was Nabokov's second English-language novel and eleventh overall.
Bend Sinister is the ninth studio album by English post-punk band The Fall. It was released in September 1986 by record label Beggars Banquet.
Bend Sinister is a progressive-indie band formed in 2001 now based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The band takes its name from a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
Bend Sinister is the third release EP from Vancouver band, Bend Sinister released September 14. 2007. The video for first single, "Time Breaks Down", received moderate play on Muchmusic and was nominated for CBC Radio 3's 2007 Video of the Year Bucky award.
Bend Sinister may refer to:
- Bend sinister (heraldry), the reverse of a standard bend, an ordinary, in heraldry
- Bend Sinister (novel), a 1947 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
- Bend Sinister (album), a 1986 album by the post-punk group The Fall
- Bend Sinister (band), a progressive rock band from British Columbia, Canada
- Bend Sinister (EP), a 2007 extended play album by the band of the same name
Usage examples of "bend sinister".
An onyx spider squatted malignantly atop his helmet, but his shield displayed his own arms: a bend sinister, chequy black and white, on a pale gray field.
Field sable, argent bend sinister, in chief sun proper with crown, both or.
But sentiment only, as sticky if not as morbid as that of her aunt with the dead husbands, for the Imperium could not use my bend sinister.
Alexander Hamilton and Leonardo da Vinci are in the same boat with you, to name just two of the many great men entitled to wear the bend sinister.
Alexander Hamilton and Leonardo da Vinci are in the same boat with you, to name just two of the many great men' entitled to wear the bend sinister.
The design on the front was the same as that on the other side: a stylized street lined with geometric shapes running like a purple-pink bend sinister across a black background.