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Canard   /kənˈɑrd/   Listen
Canard

noun
1.
A deliberately misleading fabrication.





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"Canard" Quotes from Famous Books



... what I unsealed last night reports Tecumseh to have foiled the enemy In two encounters at the Canard bridge. A noble fellow; as I hear, humane, Lofty and bold and rooted in ...
— Tecumseh: A Drama • Charles Mair
... my earnings are my own, and I have never lived on another man's fortune. If you mean that the late Seigneur made a will—that canard—" ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... sensational story sent out last night from Hicksville that a Negro had outraged a little four-year-old girl proves to be a base canard. The correspondents who went into the details should have taken the pains to investigate, and the officials should have known more of the matter before they gave out ...
— The Red Record - Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States • Ida B. Wells-Barnett


Words linked to "Canard" :   fabrication, fiction, fable


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