Hypertext Webster Gateway: "canard"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

canard
n : a deliberately misleading fabrication


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