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AKA "bend dexter", in the sense of heraldry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_(heraldry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_(heraldry) (Credit for this obser
by NelsonMinar 3y ago
AKA "bend dexter", in the sense of heraldry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_(heraldry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_(heraldry)
(Credit for this observation goes to Ryvar in the Metafilter discussion of this article.)
- wyldfire 3y agoInteresting! I'd heard it referred to as a "bar sinister" before but when I looked it up I couldn't find anything to confirm that. I hadn't thought of looking it up in the context of heraldry. I suppose dexter when it's left-to-right and sinister when it's right-to-left?
- WorldMaker 3y agoYeah, which maybe makes it punnily appropriate that Ghostbusters has always used the "bend sinister" version given the theme of ghosts and the modern connotation of "sinister".