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