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noun, plural -nards 
[-nahrdz; Fr. -nar] .
[-nahrdz; Fr. -nar] . 1.
a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
2.
Cookery. a duck intended or used for food.
3.
Aeronautics.
a.
an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing.
b.
Also called canard wing. one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings.
c.
an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.
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Canard
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is obdurate. Does it mean:
| hardened in feelings or in wrongdoing |
| stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint |
Example Sentences
- Over my dead body”This canard has been examined over and over, and found to be false.
- There's that canard again, from people who ought to know better.
- Energy too cheap to meter" was the great canard of the atomic age.
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canard
before 1850, from Fr. canard "a hoax," lit. "a duck" (from O.Fr. quanart, probably echoic of a duck's quack); said by Littré to be from the phrase vendre un canard à moitié "to half-sell a duck," thus, from some long-forgotten joke, "to cheat."
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