Definitions for canards

canards ca·nard

Spelling: [kuh-nahrd; French ka-n
IPA: /kəˈnɑrd; French kaˈnar/

Canards is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in canards (aacdnrs).

Definitions for canards

noun

  1. a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
  2. Cookery. a duck intended or used for food.
  3. Aeronautics. an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing. Also called canard wing. one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings. an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.

Origin of canards

1840-50; French: literally, duck; Old French quanart drake, orig. cackler, equivalent to can(er) to cackle (of expressive orig.) + -art -art, as in mallart drake; see

Examples for canards

The first is this canard that we have to balance the budget.

For starters, Khalidi indignantly dismisses what he calls “the canard regarding the Palace Hotel.”

"So you are introducing the canard to the political world," remarked Lousteau.

It is a classic anti-Semitic canard to punish any Jew for the perceived crimes of all of them.

The only surprise was that it was Gimpel who resorted to this ancient Likud canard.

It's a canard--cover for trying to prevent black and brown people from voting.

This has, however, not been confirmed, and is considered (how justly we cannot say) a “canard.”

Thus canard grew, and finally a beautiful church was built there.

Unfortunately that is only a canard invented by my dearest enemies.

The story of an armed band surrounding the bank had been a canard.

Word Value for canards
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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