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).
Borrowing from French canard (âduckâ). The primary English meaning of canard comes from the Medieval French expression âVendre des canard Ã  moitiÃ©.â The meaning literally is âto sell ducks by half.â It is actually the punch line to a joke. Eventually the punch line came to stand for the joke and then finally the word alone stood for the whole concept.