canards

[John Ferrell]

I found this interesting info on a word-a-day list subscription:
canard (kuh-NAHRD) noun

   1. A deliberately misleading story; hoax.

   2. An airplane with small forward wings mounted in front of the main wings;
      also such a wing.

[From French, literally a duck. The term is said to have come from the French
expression vendre un canard à moitié or "to half-sell a duck" or to take in
or swindle.]

Picture of a canard:
http://142.26.194.131/aerodynamics1/Appendix/Aircraft/Canards.htm

  
John Ferrell
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