Aircraft wing configuration with a small wing ahead of the main wing, or such a forewing.
A false or unfounded report or story; especially: a fabricated report.
1 He was holding a long pickaxe in the piolet en canard position.
2 It is, I fear, impossible to lay to rest this oxymoronic canard .
3 At this point, the Ambassador announced the perpetration of a canard .
4 The story of an armed band surrounding the bank had been a canard .
5 She called the dripping lump a canard , like the French children.
6 Maman was very graceful and served me a portion of parmentier de canard .
7 If you mean that the late Seigneur made a will - that canard -
8 But, and I would say this of course, that is a terrible canard .
9 He also returned to an old Republican canard : getting rid of the Dept.
10 That was the old canard , and she was reviled for it for decades.
11 So to recap, the classic dart and the super canard , big drag issues.
12 This tactic is at best disingenuous, and at worst a canard .
13 And the second canard is that other forms of media have superior regulatory systems.
14 You can avoid confit de canard on a daily basis.
15 But where Anne of Menand was concerned, every canard contained an element of truth.
16 Unhappily this canard has been much repeated in the media.
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