canards

Noun

canard (plural canards)

1. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
   • It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.2005 August 29, The New Yorker, page 78

   Synonyms:

   hoax

2. A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
3. (broadly) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.

   Synonyms:

   foreplane

4. (broadly) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.