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Canard is FrenchFrench language

French is the third-largest of the Romance languages in terms of number of native speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese, b...
 for duckDuck

Duck is the common name






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Canard is FrenchFrench language

French is the third-largest of the Romance languages in terms of number of native speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese, b...
 for duckDuck

Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds....
, and is often used in English to refer to a deliberately false storyHoax

A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real....
, originating from an abbreviated form of an old French idiomIdiom

An idiom is an expression whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definitions and the arrangement of its parts, bu...
, "vendre un canard à moitié," meaning "to half-sell a duck." In French it can also mean a journal. It may refer to:

  • Canard (aeronautics)Canard (aeronautics)

    In aeronautics, canard is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the tailplane is ahead of the main lift...
    , flight control surfaces mounted at the front of an aircraft or an aircraft bearing such surfaces


  • Le Canard enchaînéLe Canard enchaîné Overview

    Le Canard enchan is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France, founded in 1915, featuring investigative journalis...
    , a satirical French newspaper. The newspaper itself gave birth to another meaning for canard: newspaper.