canard
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
canard (plural canards)
- A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
- 2005, The New Yorker, 29 August, page 78.
- It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.
- 2006, Arundhati Roy, Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire, page 40 ↗
- There is a notion gaining credence that the free market breaks down national barriers, and that corporate globalization's ultimate destination is a hippie paradise where the heart is the only passport and we all live together happily inside a John Lennon song (Imagine there's no country...). This is a canard.
- 2005, The New Yorker, 29 August, page 78.
- (aeronautics) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
- (transport, engineering) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
- (false or misleading report or story) hoax
- French: canard
- German: Zeitungsente, Ente
- Portuguese: atoarda
- Russian: у́тка
- Spanish: bulo, filfa, infundio
- French: avion-canard, canard
- German: Canard, Entenflugzeug, Entenflügler
- Portuguese: canard
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