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CANARD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does canard mean?
• CANARD (noun)
The noun CANARD has 1 sense:
1. a deliberately misleading fabrication
Familiarity information: CANARD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deliberately misleading fabrication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("canard" is a kind of...):
fable; fabrication; fiction (a deliberately false or improbable account)
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