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Canard

Canard Meaning & Definition
Canard Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Canard?

[n] a deliberately misleading fabrication

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See Also | fable | fabrication | fiction

Canard In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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