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canard
[ kuh-nahrd; French ka-nar ]
noun
- a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
- Cooking. a duck intended or used for food.
- Aeronautics.
- an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing.
- Also called canard wing. one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings.
- an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.
canard
/ kæˈnɑːd; kanar /
noun
- a false report; rumour or hoax
- an aircraft in which the tailplane is mounted in front of the wing
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Origin of canard1
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Example Sentences
It is a classic anti-Semitic canard to punish any Jew for the perceived crimes of all of them.
The idea that we shouldn't be funding duck mating is a total canard.
The first is this canard that we have to balance the budget.
It's a canard--cover for trying to prevent black and brown people from voting.
Perhaps Cuomo believes the discredited canard that Yoko broke up the Beatles?
He kindly offered to drive us to Canard River, a place not far distant from the termination of our journey.
Personally I do not believe this wild canard of a foreign invasion.
For a moment Hazel found herself believing the Herald story a pure canard.
Elephants will be admitted, too, on account of the unjust canard concerning their fear of mice.
It was even said that the Germans were marching on Brussels, but this was contradicted afterwards as a sensational canard.
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