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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a deliberately misleading fabrication; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

canard
    n 1: a deliberately misleading fabrication