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Fabricated report
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canard
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canard \Ca*nard"\, n. [F., properly, a duck.] An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A canard is an aeronautical arrangement wherein a small forewing or foreplane is placed forward of the main wing of a fixed-wing aircraft . The term "canard" may be used to describe the aircraft itself, the wing configuration or the foreplane. Despite the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A canard of anti-Semitism is that there is a secret group of powerful Jews running the country. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In other words, the whole idea of globalization was a canard . ▪ It is hardly necessary to dignify ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a deliberately misleading fabrication
Usage examples of canard.
In the end they decided to have them both, with one of her renowned liver pates for starters, followed by Canard Sauce Bigarade, which when she described it in her soft Scots voice sounded mouth watering as well as presenting an elegant appearance.
His hands reach up to touch a smooth underbelly, an epoxide canard, the fairing of a downward-gazing radar.
Canard Meck glanced at one of the women, took in the imbecilic smile, then returned her attention to the merchant.
Elle recouvrait des marais peuples de vanneaux, de becasses, de canards et de sarcelles.
Therefore, reading thus plainly the handwriting on the wall, Gato Mgungu seized this opportunity to lay the foundations of future friendship and understanding between them though he knew that Lulimi was an old fraud and his story doubtless a canard.
However, the ambitious side of Harold Magnus was quite willing to forgo langouste and canard, in order to eat littlenecks and rib roast with the boss.
And interesting that not even Bibulus had produced a canard about Caesar and his clutch of Vestal women.
Not all the canards in the world about marriages of virgin daughters to men old enough to be their grandfathers could sway the voters, who preferred triumviral consuls to bribes, probably because Rome was empty of rural voters, who tended to rely on bribes for extra spending money at the games.
Recollect, cher Maître, as I do with senses even today a-tremble, your Canard au Pamplemousse Flambé.
Le More et le Canard de Vaucanson, vous n'auriez rien que fit ressouvenir de la gloire de la France,' all right?
The computer checked the shaft's position in relation to the missile against its predicted position based on GPS coordinates, determined that it was within parameters, and began issuing steering commands to the missile's canards and flying tail.
Well, some of us have seen it happen too long and too often to believe that canard any more.
Fan nacelles on the Dornier's canards and wings rotated to the vertical, and the plane touched down on one of the floating quays.
Five An-995 subsonic heavylift cargo planes were parked on it, fat cylindrical bodies with a rear wing and canard configuration, all of them in blue and white Air Russia colours.
The lifting fuselage and invisible intakes and the canards and the black color, it didn't look like a real airplane.