Canard is French for
duck, a type of aquatic bird.
Canard may also refer to:
Aviation
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Canard (aeronautics), a small wing in front of an aircraft's main wing
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Aviafiber Canard 2FL __NOTOC__
The Aviafiber Canard 2FL was a one-person recreational aircraft of highly unusual design, designed and built in Switzerland during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Design and development
Variously described as a rigid-wing hang-glider or ...
, a single seat recreational aircraft of canard design
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Blériot V canard, an early French aircraft built by Louis Blériot in 1907, and one of the first monoplanes
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Voisin Canard, aircraft developed by the Voisin brothers
Persons
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Marius Canard
Marius Canard FBA ( Dracy-Saint-Loup, 26 December 1888 – Duingt, Haute-Savoie, 13 September 1982) was a French Orientalist and historian.
Biography
He was born in a small village in the region of Morvan, where his father was a school teacher ...
(1888–1982), French Orientalist and historian
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Nicolas-François Canard
Nicolas-François Canard (; c. 1750 – 1833) was a French mathematician, philosopher and economist. He was one of the pioneers of applying mathematics to economic problems, forestalling the works of Antoine Augustin Cournot, William Stanley Jevo ...
(c. 1750 – 1833), French mathematician and economist
Places
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Canard, Nova Scotia
Canard is a rural community occupying a ridge to the north of the Canard River between the Canard and Habitant Rivers in Kings County in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The name comes from the French word for duck which was in turn deri ...
, Canada, a group of hamlets and villages
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Canard River, a river in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Rivière-aux-Canards (River of the ducks), a village in New France (now Canada) from 1670 until 1755
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Rivière aux Canards (Anticosti Island), a tributary of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in L'Île-d'Anticosti, Quebec, Canada
Dishonesty
*"Canard" is a dated term for a false, defamatory story
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Antisemitic canard
Antisemitic tropes, canards, or myths are " sensational reports, misrepresentations, or fabrications" that are defamatory towards Judaism as a religion or defamatory towards Jews as an ethnic or