Interesting Word - Sinister
The word sinister is usually associated with anything harmful or evil, but in heraldry it also means on, or towards the left-hand side.
(In late Middle English it developed the sense ‘malicious, underhand’, but it came from the French - sinistre or Latin sinister ‘left’.
Unfortunately left side, and subsequently left-handedness, was considered negative in many cultures.)
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