Canard Definition

kə-närd
canards
noun
A report, claim, or assertion fabricated to mislead, cause harm, etc.
Webster's New World
An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.
American Heritage
The horizontal control and stabilizing surfaces in such an aircraft.
Webster's New World
An airplane whose horizontal stabilizer is located forward of the wing or wings.
Webster's New World
(transport, engineering) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
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Other Word Forms of Canard

Noun

Singular:
canard
Plural:
canards

Origin of Canard

  • French duck, canard probably from the phrase vendre un canard à moitié to sell half a duck, to swindle from Old French quanart duck from caner to cackle of imitative origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French canard (“duck”).

    From Wiktionary

Canard Sentence Examples

  • Reay brings up the old canard about the total fuel cycle costs for nuclear energy.

  • The Glasgow newspaper found it proper to repeat this canard, without citing its source, as an expression of faith in its accuracy.

  • Monbiot has comprehensively answered the right-wing canard that the Global Justice Movement only knows what it doesn't want.

  • Balzac said of him that he " invented the lightning-rod, the hoax (` le canard ') and the republic."

  • He mentions in it only one previous enterprise of the same kind (though there had in fact been others) - that, namely, of Nicholas Francois Canard (c. 1750-1833 ), whose book, Principes d'economie politique (Paris, 1802), was crowned by the French Academy, though "its principles were radically false as well as erroneously applied."

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Words Starting With

CCACAN

Words Ending With

DRDARD

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canard

Words Starting With C and Ending With D

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With C6 Letter Words Ending With D