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語源

Borrowed from French canard (“duck, hoax”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /kəˈnɑɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəˈnɑːd/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)d

名詞

canard (plural canards)

1. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
   • 2005 August 29, The New Yorker, page 78:

     It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.

   • 2006, Arundhati Roy, Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire, page 40:

     There is a notion gaining credence that the free market breaks down national barriers, and that corporate globalization's ultimate destination is a hippie paradise where the heart is the only passport and we all live together happily inside a John Lennon song (Imagine there's no country...). This is a canard.

   • 2014 August 20, “Why Jews are worried [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 12 November 2020:

     [W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.

   • 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:

     It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.

2. (aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
3. (aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.

   Synonym: foreplane

4. (transport, engineering, by extension) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.

同意語

• (false or misleading report or story): hoax

派生語

アナグラム

• Arcand