Bendlet

"The same, but here, overall, is the bendlet sinister." ❋ Harris Dickson (1907)

Certainly no quarter of a town could use a mark of cadency below a bendlet, and Florence was more careful than most Italian towns to be precise in her heraldry. ❋ David Lindsay Crawford (1905)

His coat had previously borne the bendlet sinister, but this was officially turned into a bendlet dexter, to show that the King had been pleased to legitimise him in recognition of his services to Joan of Arc. Jean was ❋ David Lindsay Crawford (1905)

Among these shields we notice one bearing "on a field semée of fleurs-de-lys, a label, above all a bendlet dexter." ❋ David Lindsay Crawford (1905)

For a lengthy period the use of the _bend_, _bendlet_, and _baton sinister_ was usual for the purpose of denoting illegitimacy, but this has now given way to the use, in England, of a _bordure wavy_; in ❋ Charles Boutell (1844)

LE FITZ PAYN -- _Gu., three lions pass. arg., over all a bendlet az. ❋ Charles Boutell (1844)

Since the fifteenth century, in English Heraldry, a narrow bendlet or baton sinister, couped at its extremities, either plain or charged, has usually been the mark employed as difference by the illegitimate descendants of the Royal Family. ❋ Charles Boutell (1844)

The use of the _bendlet sinister_ for the debruising of crests still exists in England and Ireland, but crests are not usually differenced for any reason in Scotland. ❋ Charles Boutell (1844)

SOMERSET), differenced _Beaufort_, No. 361, with a _silver bendlet sinister_, as in No. 362, the bendlet covering the quarterings, but being included within the bordure. ❋ Charles Boutell (1844)