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Definition of Canard
1. Noun. A deliberately misleading fabrication.
Definition of Canard
1. n. An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.
Definition of Canard
1. Noun. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so. ¹
2. Noun. (aeronautics) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing. ¹
3. Noun. (transport engineering) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canard
1. a false story [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canard
Literary usage of Canard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mound Builders: Being an Account of a Remarkable People that Once by John Patterson MacLean (1904)
"Two Classes of Frauds— canard — Moon Hoax — Runic Inscriptions— Vault in the ...
The word canard is of French origin and means a duck, but in the English ..."
2. The History of Methodism in Canada: With an Account of the Rise and Progress by George Frederick Playter (1862)
"The first Indian society was formed in the summer, on the Grand River ; but the
second was the Wyandott class, on the river canard. The class was cared for ..."
3. Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economical Theory edited by William Smart (1922)
"But as to why labour accumulated in these three forms should bear rent we are
told almost nothing by canard. Land- rent he accepts as a natural fact not ..."
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