canard
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noun, plural ca·nards [kuh-nahrdz; French ka-nar] .
[kuh-nahrdz; French ka-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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| —n | |
| 1. | a false report; rumour or hoax |
| 2. | an aircraft in which the tailplane is mounted in front of the wing |
| [C19: from French: a duck, hoax, from Old French caner to quack, of imitative origin] | |
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Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
And the canard about tenure making it difficult to fire teachers is ridiculous.
The old there isn't enough cropland to replace oil is a canard as one doesn't have to replace all oil with any one fuel.
There's that canard again, from people who ought to know better.
By repeating this false canard you provide an interesting example of the tide of misinformation.
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