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Canard vs Rumour - What's the difference?

canard | rumour |

As nouns the difference between canard and rumour

is that canard is a false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so while rumour is .

canard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
  • * 2005 , The New Yorker , 29 August, page 78.
    • It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards .
  • * '>citation
  • (aeronautics) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
  • (transport, engineering) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.

    • Synonyms

    * (false or misleading report or story) hoax

    rumour

    English

    (wikipedia rumour)

    Noun

  • * Episode 16
    • Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete) A prolonged, indistinct noise.
  • * 1599 , , JC II. iv. 18:
    • Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.