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- A deliberately false story.
- A type of aircraft in which the primary vertical control surface is in front of the main wing.
Etymology: (term, canard, lang=fr, , duck). It has been suggested that there was a French phrase "to half-sell a duck" which meant to fool or cheat someone.
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