Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked ... as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia. He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure.
A canard is an aircraft design which places the large main wing behind the smaller horizontal stabilizer. This results in a triangular shape of the aircraft, similar to a duck in flight, which is where the term canard originated (the word canard is french for duck).
The Old French word quanart, duck, morphed into canard, as in vendre un canard Ã  moitiÃ©, which refers to half-selling a duck, or cheating someone, and the word came to mean something meant to fool someone deliberately. Not always the case with canard. n a deliberately misleading fabrication. Type of: