{"id":600,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/sinister\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:20","slug":"sinister","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/glossary\/sinister\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Sinister** is the heraldic term for the side of a flag or shield on the bearer&#8217;s left, which appears on the viewer&#8217;s right. It corresponds to the fly side of a flag flown from a staff on the viewer&#8217;s left. Although the word descends from Latin for &#8216;left&#8217; and carries no pejorative meaning in heraldry, sinister is the less honourable side and ordinarily bears the secondary charges of a quartered field.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: On a quartered royal standard, the arms of a junior kingdom or claim are often placed in the sinister chief or sinister base quarter.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [dexter](\/glossary\/dexter\/), [fly](\/glossary\/fly\/), [quartered](\/glossary\/quartered\/), [blazoning](\/glossary\/blazoning\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-600","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}