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

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